Thanks. I’m not sure if the text they have there at the site is from that news clipping or not. But I found another site which definitely has the correct text.
excerpt:
...Starting from Moscow late in the Spring of 1934 on what was advertised by the Intourist Travel Bureau as a complete tour of the Ukraine, we first went to a large Collective Farm near Tambov. Honesty compels me to state that this was indeed a model farm.
Conversation with the workers on this farm established the facts that practically all these people were immigrant Communists from either America, England or Germany, who had eve brought their farming implements with them, at their own expense, from abroad.
I HOPE THEY ALL ENDED UP IN THE GULAGS!
At the railway station at Veronezh I asked a glib-tongued Intourist guide why so many hundreds of persons were sleeping in the railway station-why were they in rags, and why did they have such agonizing looks on their faces.
To which he replied:
“They were sleeping in the railway station because they were all workers from a factory near-by and are leaving today for their month’s holiday in the Crimea, which also accounts for their old clothing, being on holiday and having sat up all night so as not to miss the train, naturally they looked tired”.
I THINK THIS GUIDE MUST STILL BE ALIVE, HE’S POSTING HERE ON FR TELLING US HOW WONDERFUL THE HOPE AND CHANGE IS UNDER OBAMA!
The look of agony and intense misery on all the faces of these misery [sic] did not bespeak of any forthcoming holidays in the Crimea. Questioning a few of these peasants convinced me that we tourists are being shown only the rosy side of a very horrible condition.
THANKS for the link to the text! Aint REVOLUTION the best!