"It is a mistake to exaggerate the gravity of the situation. The Russians have tightened their belts before to a far greater extent than is likely to be needed this winter." @nytimes 11/25/32
"Tightened their belts" is an interesting turn of phrase in this context.
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"hard as life is here in Russia this correspondent is willing to go on record that no youngsters anywhere have a better time or are likely to make more useful citizens." --
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"From a strictly dispassionate standpoint, the Bolshevik Five-Year Plan is a superb political invention."
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"I myself was lamentably wrong about the extent and gravity of the 'man-made famine' in Russia during the fight to collectivize the farms, in 1930-33. But every reporter who is worth his salt tries always to tell the truth" --Walter Duranty, 1941
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"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." --Duranty, NY Times, August 23, 1933 Not only did they lie to cover up a genocide, they accused those who exposed it of lying and doing so for nefarious purposes.
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It is though. So is dying in your 30s!
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Perhaps older than prostitution...
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