The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
What was the "cripple's" attitude toward America?
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The disabled man conversing with Theroux insisted that communism was better than capitalism and betrayed a naive view of the U.S. propagated by Soviet radio. Specifically, he was convinced Americans were constantly shooting one another and that whites were always killing blacks.