Hurray! It is wonderful to be in Germany again, absolutely wonderful.
Russia is in a very bad state; rotten, no food, only bread; oppression, injustice,
misery among the workers and 90% discontented. I saw some very bad things, which
made me mad to think that people like [the Webbs] go there and come back, after having
been led round by the nose and had enough to eat, and say that Russia is a
paradise. In the South there is talk of a new revolution, but it
will never come off,