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Very interesting. Was it ever translated into Russian? I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that it wasn't.
by listic 13y ago
Very interesting. Was it ever translated into Russian? I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that it wasn't.
- alyxr 13y agoStalin spoke Georgian and Russian, not English.
- dang 13y agoI think what listic may be referring to is that the Soviets conducted a more liberal discourse in their interactions with the Western press than they permitted domestically.
- listic 13y agoSorry if I was unclear. As a Russian myself, I wondered whether this interview, which we can read here in English, was ever, during the period between 1934 to now, translated from English into Russian. The most direct reason for this interest being to show it to my non-English-speaking friends.
- dang 13y agoAh, I get it. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'd bet a translation exists somewhere (because Russians translate everything, or at least used to, and this class of material would be of obvious interest), but have zero idea how to find it. (Edit: uh, other than Google :))
- krick 13y agoAre you kidding? Of course it was! Simply searching for "уэллс сталин" in google would reveal it. Here, http://www.situation.ru/app/j_art_1202.htm http://www.situation.ru/app/j_art_1202.htm But, anyway, I'm interested which one should be considered closer to the original one. Obviously Wells published it the first time in English. But AFAIK Stalin didn't speak English and I can't find if Wells actually spoke Russian. And in some places of the interview I was actually interested in how exactly Stalin phrased it.