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permits him to realise how mendacious and unmerited are the attacks in the capitalist press which speak of the discontent of the
Russian people, of the breakdown and the poverty of the country under the Soviet regime. The purpose of this campaign is the following: the foreign delegations are shown a series of factories, hospitals, daycare centers, retirement homes, carefully chosen and meticulously arranged in advance, with the intention of demonstrating the perfection of such institutions in the USSR
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party. Let anyone who is against this list raise their hand!' At the same moment
Oebijkon and four of his comrades pull their revolvers and direct them menacingly at the peasant audience. Oebijkon continued: 'Who votes against this list? No one? Then I declare that everyone voted for the communist list. There is no need to vote for the other two lists anymore.'" This episode would later be used in
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Another part of the book recorded how one
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The Soviet government has, over the last few years, methodically pursued a campaign in workers' circles in the West to invite them to visit Soviet Russia in groups, offering them easy visas, free transport and other attractive privileges. The
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from 1891 to 1926. He served as the
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Granarolo, XII - Hommage aux hommes lucides qui ont su résister au térrorisme intellectuel : Joseph Douillet
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