"Scratch a Russian you'll find a Tatar. Scratch a Russian worker and you'll find a peasant."
— Peasant

January 1, 1970

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Old saying, in Caradog Vaughan James Soviet Socialist Realism: Origins and Theory, MacMillan, 1973, p. 48