Traveling Through Soviet Siberia
B. Skou was the Philippine representative of Parke, Davis & Company who, in 1929, returned to Manila by passing through communist Russia. His experience of the country was then published in The American Chamber of Commerce Journal. In his account, B. Skou openly criticizes the results of communism in Russia by putting emphasis on the miserable living conditions of its population. These include shabby houses, an unfair taxing power, and the destruction of the upper and middle classes. The ending sentence gives the reader a clear idea of the author’s feelings for communist Russia: “Passing from Siberia into Japan is like coming out of a desert into a garden, or turning from a land of decay and lost hope to one of life and opportunity”. In short, these Russian features should not be adopted in the Philippines and should be avoided at all costs.
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Fecha
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1929-11
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Fuente
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Skou, B. “Traveling Through Soviet Siberia”, The American Chamber of Commerce Journal IX, num. 11, November 1929, pp. 9-10. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Rocío Ortuño Casanova and Annelies Diels
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Idioma
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English
