I have written for years of the Red Army, yet my first living contact with it was with these peasants. They did not understand me.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.Agnes Smedley
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
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