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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
A brilliant description! Karma sent. However, I'm slightly concerned about your new heroine. Someone who admires and visits one of the most repressive, murderous regimes in history, responsible for the deaths of millions of people, seems a bit dodgy to me. And yes, I know she left the communist party eventually. But if she'd joined Mosley's Blackshirts and visited Nazi Germany in the '30's, would you have been able to put it down to youthful naivety, even if she'd renounced her past?
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Until her book arrives in the post I can't really comment, although she was chosen to go to Russia in 1927 by the Accrington Weavers, Winders, and Warpers Association, aged only sixteen, only ten years after the revolution, when to many it still seemed like some worker's Utopia. It will certainly be interesting to read her opinion of working conditions in the still newly formed Soviet Union, compared to those we had in Lancashire at the time.
I doubt at that time she saw any of the terrible things that had already happened, and would happen later under Stalin.