Winter in MoscowThis is a fictionalized account of Stalin's Moscow. Muggeridge expresses his disillusionment with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and exposes the willful credulity of the many British and American journalists who refused to see the truth about Soviet life and misrepresented the facts to the outside world. Through adroit use of satire, he portrays them as they dutifully tour Soviet construction projects and witness staged trials, blithely overlooking starving citizens and unharvested crops, and all the while reporting statistics and writing stories in support of the utopian claims of the government. |
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