IN MY OPINION

Do you think that this Soviet ambassador to Norway has a beautiful hat!... I never tire of admiring it, this hat, and the entire photograph, the photograph that the Echo de Paris reproduced from the Illustration, and where we see the great Bolshevik lady at the moment she crosses the threshold of the royal palace of Christiania.

What a court coat, what a queenly allure, and above all what a hat, what feathers on her hat!...
And that tells us more about the Soviet regime than many dispatches from Moscow, and many investigations!

Communism naturally preaches equality; well! let someone show me photographs of Russian women, of all Russian women, wearing a hat as magnificent as the one with which Mrs. Kollontai, ambassador of the communist government in Christiania, appears to us so superbly adorned…

Alas! I have also seen photographs of poor women that show the most cruel deprivations and terrible misery…

The communists accused Tsarism of ruining and starving the Russian people for their own benefit. But was Tsarism overthrown only to allow Mrs. Kollontai and a few other great ladies of the Soviets to adorn themselves like grand duchesses?...
The heads have changed, but they are still the same, with feathered hats.

The only difference, and this cannot be seen in a photograph, is that the feathers of the new ambassador are stained with blood because, this time, in order to get hold of the feathers, the heads had been cut off…

Franc-Nohain,