•Visits USSR for 1st time as the eyes
& the ears of the Lloyd
George, but with an ‘open mind’ about
Communism in August 1930.
•After ‘red carpet’
treatment in Moscow, he makes
unescorted visit to Ukraine as pilgrimage to Donetz, where his mother lived in the 1880s.
•There, he discovered
deplorable conditions of ‘oppression,
injustice & misery of the workers’
& a complete
scarcity of food…
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