Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-27 | Page 19 | Trotsky Describes Terrors of Soviet Prison System

Trotsky Describes Terrors Of Soviet Prison on System By LEON TROTSKY Exiled Russian Soviet Leader HONE FOSS Norway Feb 27 US UP J During recent months and weeks I have received extremely Important important tant news from authentic sources relative to the th terrible regime against political prisoners whose whoso fidelity to the soviet union is beyond doubt and whose only crime is that of ot criticising the ruling bu bu- I Friends have havo requested me mc by cable to let them know the truth of this matter A short time ago for example Dr Anton former leader of ot the communist party arrived from the soviet union where he spent more than five years in prison and exile as punishment for his critical attitude toward the leadership of ot the com con n. Intern Prisoner Forcibly Fed To force his expulsion from the country began a hunger strike He was then fed led forcibly and prevented from committing suicide Thousands of expelled members of ot the ruling party are in similar circumstances because they protested against the conditions of growing inequality introduction of army officer titles dissipation and autocracy and Kamene close collaborators col cot of Lenin are now imprisoned imprisoned imprisoned for or a crime with which they had nothing whatsoever to do former chairman of ot the political bureau is kept in a cell with 12 others other Last year an additional additional additional addi addi- five years ears was added to his original year five-year Imprisonment for his alle alleged ed participation in plotting a assassination of Stalin Accurate rate and absolutely objective lve oil VV V I i I i Leon Trotsky Daren stern stun I rule of Russian chiefs Information by and I others proves increasing I between the tho bureaucracy and the developing population The bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy bu bu- bu- bu is compelled to have re recourse recourse recourse re- re course to the sharpest repressions not in the interests of ot the thc soviet state but of its own self soU I tion It is indisputable that enemies of the soviet union and of its friendly relations with the United States make use f such information for their own purposes But the way to avoid such misuse is not to conceal conceal conceal con con- ceal the facts of the bureaucratic crime but to put an end to the crimes themselves