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These excerpts from Harrison E. Salisbury's dispatches from the Soviet Union are typical of what he sent the New York Times while its correspondent in Russia from 1949 to 1953. Readers of his stories on life under Stalin got the impression that it was quite comfortable and the standard of living was rising rapidly. All the country's energies were devoted to peaceful construction. Not only the people but also the government sincerely desired peace. Fear and tension were absent.

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