The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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Friendship is far more human.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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