Среди них есть и такие тупицы, которые способны отменить преподавание химии, если только не заверить их, что это «пролетарская» химия, или наложить запрет на любой орнамент, как реакционный, если в нём не фигурирует сочетание букв РСФСР...
And in the face of gigantic difficulties they are trying to rebuild a new Russia among the ruins. We may quarrel with their principles and methods, we may call their schemes Utopian and so forth, we may sneer at or we may dread what they are doing, but it is no good pretending that there is no creative effort in Russia at the present time. A certain section of the Bolsheviks are hard-minded, doctrinaire and unteachable men, fanatics who believe that the mere destruction of capitalism, the disuse of money and trading, the effacement of all social differences, will in itself bring about a sort of bleak millennium. There are Bolsheviki so stupid that they would stop the teaching of chemistry in schools until they were assured it was "proletarian" chemistry, and who would suppress every decorative design that was not an elaboration of the letters R.S.F.S.R. ...
4. Созидательная работа в России.
перевод с уточнениями
Россия в тенях (1920)
Источник: Герберт Уэллс. Россия во мгле http://lib.ru/INOFANT/UELS/russia.txt. Собрание сочинений в 15-ти томах. Т. 15 / пер. И. Виккер, В. Пастоев. — М.: Правда, 1964.
Источник: Russia in the Shadows by H. G. Wells http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602371h.html
