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,