“There is no longer a capital; it is a cesspit…the streets are filthy, there are piles of stinking rubbish in the courtyards. It hurts me to say how bad things have become. There is growing idleness and cowardice in the people and those base criminal instincts…it seems they are destroying Russia.”
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