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a sense of conditions in Russia that might help me to understand news from there with new insight. In that respect, but not in others, I fear my trip was disappointing. The view from the train is too fragmentary and confined to make anything I might seem to have learned more than suspect.
A non-Russian speaking person looking out train windows and stopping in cities from time to time is like a deaf-mute trying to communicate through sign language with someone who knows nothing about it.
The overarching impression I had of the Siberian landscape was one of great beauty. As the countryside opened up to us for the thousands of miles we traveled west, we were more or less constantly in rolling hilly land covered with birch, spruce, Siberian pine or other sorts of evergreen and deciduous trees. Valleys of pastures and grain growing fields stretched toward hills everywhere, especially green owing to
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