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'The men all jeered at the first woman we elected to our village soviet,'a village president told me,
'but at the next election we elected six women and now it is we who laugh.'I met twenty of these women presidents of villages in 1928 on a train in Siberia, bound for a Women's Congress in Moscow. For most it was their first trip by train and only one had ever been out of Siberia. They had been invited to Moscow 'to advise the government' on the demands of women; their counties elected them to go. "