Show national Na tiona political review by BONNIE WILSON green river high school graduate and student of political science university of utah one of the paradoxes of this mod era ern age is fie te monumental agnor arce of the russian people on what is going on in m the world american writers emerge from the iron cur tain shocked and almost incredulous by the misconception of life in the united states found even among the better russians the russian people are cut off completely from the every day sou aces of information that exist in the western world the soviet citizen gets his impressions from th the e state dominated press the radio and the utterances of russi russian an bureaucrats these picture life in the united states as almost unbearable under the heel of wall street imperialists bent upon starting another war it is only natural for the soviet citizen to conclude that he is mich better off than the average american he feels that he has more freedom and more of the good things of life the is very smug about it the soviet rulers realize it would never do to relax restrictions on tra vel iel for the russian people would then find out for themselves what america is really like the results would be calamitous to those in pow er A few russians on offic I 1 iiI missions do sift through the I 1 on cartain to visit the united states but they give no hint lint of what they think it wo id be interesting indeed to read the re ports they make to their masters americans may be sure of one thing these occasional visitors take care not to kindle unrest in their homeland by true accounts of free dom and prosperity that exist in th is country |