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<div class="heading">Everywhere the people are very good, but the leaders are bad.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi|Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter (2): When you visited the Soviet Union, Swamiji, did you find the atmosphere worse than it is in Western countries, say? Are the people...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everywhere the people are very good, but the leaders are bad.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): Did you meet any of them? No.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I talked with one of the best leaders, Professor Kotovsky. He is the professor of Indology. I talked with him. I have studied. The people are generally very good.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): But did you hold any meetings or anything?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter (2): Were they receptive to what you...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I was invited by Professor Kotovsky to talk. On my way to Europe I stayed there. So I have studied the people. They are very good, as our Indian people, innocent masses, they are also like that. But they are being sophisticated by their new philosophy, communism, artificial thing. But they are not happy. They are being forced to accept a philosophy. People are.... I have seen from their face. They look unhappy. Everything dependent on government. You have to accept. You cannot select your food even. Whatever nonsense things the government will supply, you have to accept, even you don't like it. And for us it was a great difficulty. We could not get rice, could not get flour, neither fruit. Only milk is available and flesh, as much as you like. So on the whole, it was artificial and people are not happy.</p>
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