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All this was so different from what Bunny had been taught that it was hard for him to adjust his thoughts to it. He would go off and think it over, and then come back with another string of questions. "Then Paul, you mean the Bolsheviks aren't bad people at all!"
Paul answered, "Just apply the rule -- remember Paradise! They were workingmen, like any other workingmen on strike. A lot of them have come from America -- got their training here. I used to meet them and have long talks -- all kinds of fellows, that had been all over this country. They are people with modern ideas, trying to dig the Russians out of their ignorance and superstition. They believe in education -- I never saw such people for teaching; everywhere, whatever they were doing, they were always preaching, having lectures, printing things -- why, son, I've seen newspapers printed on old scraps of brown butcher paper, or wrappings our army had thrown away. I learned Russian pretty well -- and it was just the sort of thing our strikers printed at Paradise, only of course these people have got farther in their struggle against the bosses, they see things more clearly than we do."