hold the wheezing machinery together. Mos­cow wasawash with rumors of a coup. And life got worse

hold the wheezing machinery together. Mos­cow wasawash with rumors of a coup. And life got worse

ii^B^Hv SOU!, if full of fear," a Russian B^H woman said. Russians speak of their soul as if it were as visible as a ■M hand Despite Soviet efforts to gal­vanize society into a stern-visaged, heroic mass, Russians cling to passionate emotion as if it were a given right A mother weeps as a

departing train takes away her son, though he's only leaving for a weekend. There is deep, and very touching, emotion in death, witness the (lowers always laid upon graves, even upon the stones of tyrants dead for centuries.

Under communism foreigners rarely felt the hospitality that springs from the Russian soul. A few years ago such a couple as Lena and Georgii would not have dared entertain me in their flat, regaling me with jokes about the system while refreshing me with cognac they

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Under pressure to deal with a disintegrating economy, member* of the Russian congress scan telegrams (right) from their newly and loudly vocal constituents. Outside, near Red Square, a motley assortment of homeless per- sons and protesters -including 200 member* of the Union of Persecuted People—camp out in tents while airing grievances directly to the passing public a sight once unthinkable now becoming commonplace.

National Geographic, February 199J

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