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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 8.

No Utopia

No Utopia.

The witness pointed out, to begin with, that he was in Russia from December to February, that is to say, from mid-winter to early spring, and that at such a time, with monotonous scenery, frigid temperatures, and nature at its lowest ebb, there was no misleading gloss in the natural surroundings. He saw things in the worst months of the year and under the least favourable conditions.

He declared that he had been given absolute freedom to see what he liked in Russia from the best schools to the worst, from the newest factories to the most tumble-down. In fact there was much more honestly about Russia's difficulties within the country itself, he said, than among many Friends of the Soviet Union in this and other lands. Russia was no Utopia either of human beings or of material environment, but the people were facing their problems realistically, openly and frankly, and had achieved and were bound to achieve amazing success.