Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
From the Polish border the tourists had come in a special train of mahogany-trimmed sleeping cars complete with electric fans and shower baths, relics of Imperial Russia. Impressed with the attentions of the Russian conductor, Heiress Bauer-offered him a small gratuity...
...many thanks, kind lady," said the punctilious Communist. "Tipping is officially banned in Russia as a bourgeois institution, degrading to workers...
...strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar as you like...
Although it is possible to travel well in almost any part of Europe for $10 a day, and sumptuously for $20, the Soviet authorities are abstracting $99,000 from their 99 guests for a 30-day tour of Red Russia-$33.33 per tourist...