Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Grand Duke Alexander predicts ends of Soviet rule

April 7, 1930

Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, brother-in-law of the late Nicholas II, stopped off for a few hours today in Chicago, to change trains. He is en route from Los Angeles to New York, where he is to be the patron of a benefit performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
He is convinced that the Soviet government will fail. "I must say that Russia will change. They are brutes over there, without God, freedom, family, or property. It cannot continue because it is against human nature. The people are now being subjugated as the slaves of the state." Grand Duke Alexander contrasted that image with the "well arranged existence in America."

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