Horrified Soviet Tourist Describes California and Hollywood (1936) // Ilf and Petrov's US Road Trip @VoicesofthePast

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Text taken from 'Revival: Little Golden America' (1944) (Routledge Revivals) by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov.
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