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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
A place where the food is not very good, facilities are not very modern and where visitors feel detached or disliked is hardly a place people visit on vacation.
The Soviet Union may not be known as the vacation capitol of the world, but an increasing number of people do visit the country, usually for educational purposes.
A tour of hospitals in Russia, the largest of 15 Soviet Union republics, was the reason for three Rappahannock residents’ visit in June.
Dr. Bill Young, his wife, Mitzie, and Grace Sims toured Russia for three weeks with a group of American psychiatrists.
'Hie Youngs visited the Soviet Union once 12 years ago, but their Uur this time was concentrated in Siberia.
Siberia, notorious in this country for its prison camps and no-man’s land for banished dissentients, is a vast region of frozen tundra, forests and marsh land w here the only seasons are winter and summer. There are also three cities in Siberia with populations of a half million people.
“I noticed that there weren’t many Mongolian or Eskimo-looking people there,” Dr. Young said. “Then I realized that so many people were transported or re-located to Siberia by the government.”
He also noticed a lack of eye contact with people. “I felt detached much of the time because there wasn’t very much eye contact or many smiles exchanged,” he said.
The group traveled a lot at night on trains, buses, subways and a hydrofoil, which were clean and modern. The hotel accommodations are still below what the West offers, the Youngs said.
Western hospitals are superior to those Dr. Young toured in Russia, too.
“The hospitals there are equal to
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