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90 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTrRE INDUSTRY
Miss Rand. You don't have to come out and denounce Russia durinotlio wai; no. Yon can keep quiet. There is no moral (^uih in not sayino' something if you can't say it, but there is in saying the opposite of what is true.
Mr. AVoon. Tliank you. That is alL
The CiiAiitMAN. jMr. Vaih
Mr. Vail. No questions.
The Chaikman. Mr. McDowelL
Mr. McDowell. You paint a very dismal picture of Russia. Yon made a great point about the number of children who were unhappy. Doesn't anybody smile in Russia any more?
Miss Rand. Well, if you ask me literally, pretty nuich no.
Mr. McDow'EL!,. They don't smile ?
Miss Rand. Not quite that way; no. If they do, -it is privately and accidentally. Certainly, it is not social. They don't smile in approval of their system,
Mr. McDowEJ.L. Well, all they do is talk about food.
Miss Rand. That is right.
Mr. McDowell. That is a great change from the Russians I have always known, and I have know a lot of them. Don't they do things at all like Americans? Don't they walk across town to visit their mother-in-law or somebody?
Miss Rand. Look, it is very hard to explain. It is almost impossible to convey to a free people what it is like to live in a totalitarian dictatorship. I can tell you a lot of details. I can never completely convince you, because you are free. It is in a way good that you can't even conceive of what it is like. Certainly they have friends and mothers-in-law. They try to live a human life, but you understand it is totally inhuman. Try to imagine wdiat it is like if you are in constant terror from morning till night and at night you are waiting for the doorbell to ring, where you are afraid of anything and everybody, living in a country where human life is nothing, less than nothing, and you know" it. You don't know who or when is going to do what to you because you may have friends who spy on you, where there is rio law and any rights of any kind.
Mr. McDowell. You came here in 1'92(), I believe you said. Did you escape from Russia?
JMiss Rand. No.
Mr. McDownxL. Did you have a passport ?
Miss Rand. No. Strangely enough, the}' gave me a passport to come out here as a visitor.
Mr. ]\IcDowELL. As a visitor?
Miss Rand. It was at a time when they relaxed their orders a little bit. Quite a few people got out. I had some relatives here and I was permitted to come here for a yenv. I never went back.
Mr. McDoAVELL. I see.
The Chairman. Mr. Nixon.
Mr. Nixon. No questions.
The Chairman. All right.
The first witness tomorrow morning will be Adolph Menjou.
(Whereupon, at 4: 20 \). m., an adjournment was taken until 10: 30 a. m. of the following day, Tuesday, October 21 ,1947.) ^^
•" See appendix, p. 525, for exhibit 26.