The Reconstruction of Moscow

by 'improvements' such as railroads, the building of new streets, etc., not only receives full indemnity. He must, according to Idw, human and divine, be com- forted for his enforced 'abstinence' over and above this- by a thumping profit. The labourer, with his" wife and child and chattels, is thrown out into the street, and— if he crowds in too large numbers towards quarters of the town where the vestries insist on decency— he is; prosecuted in the name of sanitation!"* The allocation of the enormous area of 100,000 square metres of floor-space for the temporary accomodation of the persons affected by the demolition of their quarters in connection with the planning of Moscow is witness to the solicitude of the Soviet government for its people. Every clause of the decision on the reconstruction of Moscow speaks of only one thought, one desire: to im- prove in every way and to enhance to the utmost the wefl- being of the toiling masses of the Red capital of the glorious socialist fatherland, to make of Moscow a city worthy of its great title — capital of the U.S.SiR.

* Msltx, Capital, Vol. I, p. 677, Swan SonnensGhem & Co., London. 1908.

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