•…Journalists, on
the other hand, are allowed to write, but the censorship has turned them into masters of
euphemism and
understatement. Hence they give “famine” the polite name of “food shortage” and “starving to death”
is softened down to
read as widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”
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•… May I in conclusion congratulate the Soviet Foreign Office on its skill in concealing the
true situation in the U.S.S.R.? Moscow is not Russia, and the sight of well
fed people
there tends to hide the real Russia.
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