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THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1952.4

RUSSIAN WOMEN

W

AS I SAW

HEN I was work. ing in the Indian section of the British Broad- casting Corporation, Indian friends and colleagues used to ask me about the Soviet Union. For I had been there

Domestic Animal

THEM

By Charlotte Haldane

'Charlotte Haldano, author, broadcastor and journalist, becamo” a' member of the British. Communist Party In 1937, and went on their boholt on missions to France, Spain, and Chino. She also worked underground for the Comintern In Paris, The result of her second visit to Russia as a war correspondant in 1941 was the loss of her illusions about the Soviot. Union, "and her dapártúro from the Communist Party.. This Ts tho first of throd articles, the second, of which will appear in the China, Moilan Monday.

thing that struck mo: was the fume were

viny.

Inge, which at home would have httn conducted in privacy be iween mysel and the sales- lady, becaine, in Moscow, quite a Fublic occasion; which all enjoyed, myself included. For the Rurian woman makes up for lack of Western sense of humour by her great good nature and her sincere Interest in her neighbour'a business.........

Another characteristic of the Russian women. I have met is their firm conviction that they know

best on, overy, cubject under the fun, This belief is as firmly rooted in the anti- Communist. Russian women in the West as it is in the ardent Communist women in the Soviet Uuiap

But, whereas. In the West one can argue with Russion Wes- women

on a basis, of equal

Te in

as it in

but

་་

Not Crazy

- ww

women wear

two occasions, the second time as'a war' Cor- respondent, and I had seen the living and working con- ditions of Russian women as few foreigners have been able to see then. ·"Most of my Indian friends, who had them seemed to do, The second/ varnish; face powders and per- only read about life in fact that Russian women seemed by women eager to buy. Rus

constantly besleged Russia or heard Communist to work harder and longer than an cosmetles, I found, were

unywhere else, even more expensive than in propaganda on the subject, women wanted to hear from an Chinese women, who are cor- tern Europe, and of greatly in premises, in. Moscow the situa-

ferior quality But die. demand tion was different. eye-witness what the living monly employed: in Ching on

road-building and factory con- was just

keen AS conditions of Russian struction,

London and Paris. Both men families were really likp. I remember how, in Moscow, and women use vast quantities

in bitterly. euld weather, I of perfume, scent and

toilet It is never easy to givo

ond TN the Soviet Union today men watched women street-cleaners water, nil rather heavy

and women know nothing of complete picture of a country In a few words or to

describe scrubbing and scraping the wide pungent in my

The Interest of the woman conditions or events outside their in, the thoroughfares

centre of Its people without A

naturu the city. The remarkable thing in dress was rather pathelle. own country, except what their bins in favour of one's own about them was that, not one

In the big lores frocks, hats, Government decides they shall natten and institutions. So I appeared to be less than fet played prominently

60 shoes and stockings were dls- know. This is never accurate, tho used to begin by telling

1 It is as if, for instance, I and years of age and many, in fact following anecdote.

the majority, were much older. noticed, after a while, that the other British women were told

that all Indian et windows were rarely

changed that It is less easy

'Soviet War to tell

or and that, although the shops bathing suits all the year round weman's rge than the cre women in other countries, be were always crowded, buyers and in their cold

I understood. FOREIGN diplomat in Mos- cause they nearly all dress alike, were few

The often froze to death, cow, who belonged to one of their heads and necks swathed reasons, for this when I co ustration of my, point, but, it

Course, the satellite

pared some of the prices with States and who in thick wraps and shawls, was a fervent admirer of the their bodies in heavy greateonts, those at home. In Moscow the you live listened Sevist system, said to me one and their feet and legs in coarse goods were out of reach of the Radio or read reports in Pravda majority of women, simply about Great Britain, you would day: "Host ever

you felt boats-valenki"—for pre-

because they could not. earn not perhaps And my analogy that when a Russion

peasant tection against the biting

altogether crazy. enough to buy them. woman, looks at you, she gazes und wind, the rain und the snow. at you just like a domestic But on the whole, it is the older women who perform the moru mental tasks. understood perfectly what

The younger ones are more he meant. For the ordinary ambitious. There are no jobs Kugelan person: woman has burred to them on account of that bovine, amlable, vacant stere, that apparent placidity sex, In Moscow I don't think 1 ever sow a man driving or cun- End palence which

reason for are seldom ducting a tram. Young women seats on the faces of women in also acted as trame police, Bland- the big towng and eltles. You ing quite imperturbably the feel that when the wees a rall-

material and other way train or a tractor, she can't centre of the trame, and controlling It. quile believe it.

that weathers. Nevertheless, during the last

At Archangel, the triat manufactures,

amount lets for loading and unloading of ships amount

production war, whild I was in

fumer goods is tiny com- was checked by girls, who ate of consumer

Delusion, all the trains, and a great and slept in huts on the quay, many tractors, were driven, 6 in a température 10 degrees the whole very efficiently, by below zero. weren. So that in writing of Russian women, as of; Women

A

animal?"

1

nearly

struck

Russia,

fu-

directing

all

Good Nature

TT is true, of course, that this was in wartime, and a good Never- many years ago now.

תם

This

climate (1) exaggerated

to Moscow

that

Wema in the Soviet Union Just don't know anything about living conditions cutside their own country except what they are told ameially. They

know and Eclieve only what. their Government wishes them to theless, conditions do not seem greatly to have improved. The know and believe:

лате this is that the they are the luckiest Soviet budget dévoles such the world, that in the пол Vast sums to the armed forces Communist countries people live

of WAT H

panury, and that we in the West wish to destroy the Soviet paradise..

Toil

and to the production indus- slivery and

tho

The

pared with the whole, and even inter compared with the capi

tal Investment in the manufac- WELL, our poet said: "Where ture of such articles in coun-. ignorance is bliss, 'twere folly tries where free enterprise is to be wise." And that might

WE

moblo of the Soviet 'NOTHER interesting, fael-kor

Government. For if Russian

elsewhere, one must beware of Their Feminity the economic rule;,

lope generalisation ver

did strike me

October

A about Soviet, whatton is u When I went to buy a fur women were allowed to travel One or two more lypics, that spite of their; ex- Toe dod in fur hat for by the freely, two things would bo uf women in Russia than of tremely hard lives, Inck of Beginning of

both bound to happen: they would no privacy and primitive domestle had become urgent necessities, lenger, on their return home, be The first was their physique.

Although not very their femininity. Every woman was instantly surrounded by a sion, loll and drudgery; and Yost of them were extremely I mei, without exception, seemed throng, not of shoppers, but of pill, met

they would speedily become robust and muscular, In con passionately interested in clothes onlookers. A circle of interest- ccavinced that women the

make-up. In

big ed critics formed. I was ad- world ever desire dɔ live. auquence, they did not seem to and

counters vized, suffer great hardship from the store in Moscow, the

encouraged, discouraged, peace and on terms of friend- extremely heavy work most of selling Ilpstick, rouge, nali- admonished, and the proceed ship with one another.

ther sisters in other clities, they have. not lost owing to the increasing cold-1 satisBed to dive lives of delu-

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