Stalin's Quest for Gold by Elena Osokina;

Author:Elena Osokina;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2021-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Comrade Koli was not alone in his rage.12 According to the interclubs, “any socialist propaganda stumbled at sailors’ questions on why the pus of prostitution is allowed.” In a letter to the Communist International (Comintern), Greek sailors described a Torgsin brothel:

Comrades! We, Greek sailors, have visited many seaports of the USSR and are proud to see the achievements of the world proletariat’s motherland and the progress in transitioning to socialism. But there are still many remnants of the tsarist regime, especially prostitution, the existence of which, in Torgsin, in Kherson, where we are now located, we want to bring to your attention. . . . First you enter a store that sells various goods, then there is a door to a hallway; in the hallway other doors lead to special rooms, some luxurious for officers, and the rest second-rate for sailors. After we made a purchase, the store director said that girls were available, small and beautiful, waiting in the rooms which we have already mentioned. This happened to us [underlined in the document—E.O.]. We heard this with astonishment and then entered the room for the sailors, and indeed we found ourselves in a place worse than the worst brothels that exist in capitalist countries. Several prostitutes were in sailors’ arms, singing in voices hoarse from alcohol and cursing. There were bottles of beer and the like on the table. Outraged with what we saw, we went out and asked the store director “who these women were,” and he casually replied “prostitutes” . . . and when we asked how such outrages were allowed at all, he said that here it is permitted to him. . . . After being paid hard currency by a sailor, a prostitute buys sugar in Torgsin, then sells this sugar on the black market at the price of fifteen to twenty rubles per kilo.13

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