RUSSIA TO-DAY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR:.
SIR,—In the Spectator of December 26th, there appeared an article signed T. II. Milken, giving the writer's impressions of Moscow, and expressing the hope that passport regulations may be relaxed in order that more independent persons may visit Soviet Russia. With the latter aspiration I heartily concur. Last August I was in Leningrad myself, and the impressions left upon me were quite contrary to those experi- enced by Mr. Hilken. No doubt I shall be told that the circum- stances of the two towns are entirely different, but that only serves to show that general impartial observation is all the more desirable. One section here believes the Russia of to-day to be a paradise : the other is convinced that it is a hell. If the Soviet Government really desires the outside world to under- stand the actual conditions in Russia, the thing can easily be done ; but I find it rather difficult to believe that the Soviet Government desires anything of the kind.--I am,
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