"Russian politics, like opium, seems infallibly to provoke the most fantastic dreams and imaginings on the part of the people who study them." -- E.A. Walker, British Embassy, Moscow 1931
In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company. The arrests provoked a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster and resurrected the spectre of the show trials and purges of the technical intelligentsia that had shaken Soviet society from 1928 to 1931....
"Russian politics, like opium, seems infallibly to provoke the most fantastic dreams and imaginings on the part of the people who study them." ...
"Russian politics, like opium, seems infallibly to provoke the most fantastic dreams and imaginings on the part of the people who study them." -- E. A. Walker, British Embassy, Moscow 1931
In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company. The arrests provoked a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster and resurrected the spectre of the show trials and purges of the technical intelligentsia that had shaken Soviet society from 1928 to 1931....
"Russian politics, like opium, seems infallibly to provoke the most fantastic dreams and imaginings on the part of the people who study them." -...
