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what we had in the 1950s or earlier in psychiatric and medical care,” he said. “Their psychiatric concepts are sound and they use the same medicines we do, but the medicines are in short supply and the buildings are old. Hospitals in surrounding counties here are far superior to theirs.”
He said that one person in the group was sick in Russia. “He told us he had terrible care in the hospital,” Dr. Young said.
The Youngs said that Russia combines the attributes of a modem country with those of a third world country.
“Their poverty exceeds ours, but there are no street people there because everyone has some place to go,” said Mrs. Young. “They showed our street people a lot on television. ”
Though the Youngs could not understand what the Russian announcers were saying, they could make good guesses from the pictures used.
“They showed protestors being loaded in paddy wagons at the South African embassay in Washington, D.C.,” Mrs. Young said. “It didn’t take knowledge of Russian to know what point they were making.”
They said they understood how the Russian people are made to believe everything bad about the U.S.
“We were able to pick up the Voice of America in certain places, but otherwise there was only a biweekly English paper that is written as if nothing America is doing is right,” Mrs. Young said. “There are no American papers or magazines at all.”
They brought the papers back and will donate them to the Rappahannock Library.
They said they talked to a few Russians and had interesting conversations with some.
“We met some who are dissatisfied with the system and others who believe very much in the system,” Dr. Young said.
“It is unfortunate when our gov
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