Show HOW LONG CAN RUSSIA LAST wM t O t I t r 7 i r fir z j L Hall Halliburton Wonders Wonders- Tyranny Supposed x to Save Citizens Citizens' Souls Children J Are Taught Tau Only Communism Commune 9 v J Above The military parade rolled through the Red Square for four M k hours to salute Stalin who stands h rt on a corner of Lenins Lenin's tomb The Kremlin Is at the left St. St Basils Basil's church in the background T The h c Sany A i stands to either cither side of oC the tomb 1 j arc holding spectators Right St. St Basils Basil's s cathedral catheral at the l f end of oC the Rc Red Square in Moscow l Jis J- J e i t is one of oC the worlds world's strangest but I beautiful buildings L s- s By RICHARD HALLIBURTON Author of or The Royal Roal Road to Romance etc MOSCOW V U. U S S. S S. S R. R R.- R. Russia Ive I've seen Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia and now I can believe in miracles for there-is there no word to describe the picture of Russia today other than miraculous And I do not mean that the picture picture picture pic pic- ture is miraculously beautiful In Inmany Inmany Inmany many ways it is unbelievably ugly I stand and look at it with fascinated fascinated fascinated fasci fasci- and astonished eyes ees but for nothing on earth would I pers personally nally under the present scheme of things endure the enslavement and tyranny which Its citizens must suffer who have been saved according to the fue gospel of ot Karl Marx The old c z a r i s t government gained the detestation of its subjects subjects subjects sub sub- because of Its notorious des des- But compared to the government government government gov gov- of ot today life lUe under the czar was free ree as a spring breeze The wonder of wonders Is the ease and power with which this new system of super-despotism super works A handful of leaders labor-leaders consumed with communistic theory and fanatical fanatical fanatical cal zeal sit on high within the Kremlin walls their eyes fixed on ona ona ona a book of political and social notions notions notions no no- and proceed to experiment on the lives and souls of human beings with as much Impersonal Impersonal impersonal im Im- Im- Im personal detachment as a bacteriologist bacteriologist bacteriologist experiments with germs germS' Center Attack on Czar In the beginning the beginning 1917 the proletarian proletarian prole prole- tartan leaders who had seized control control control con con- of ot Russia said The czar has proved himself the greatest obstacle in the way of our lifting the masses of workers out of their slough of ignorance and mis mis- ery First of ot all aU th then n if we are to Improve our lot we must exterminate exterminate exterminate nate the czar his w wife e his four daughters and his young son Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps bit a-bit a bit brutal but youve you've got to tobe tobe tobe be tough to get anywhere And so the czar and his entire family were shot And the aristocrats and intelligentsia Intelligentsia intelligentsia intelli intelli- must go next They'll never take to our ideas about exalting the factory workers and md to the throne That means about a million murders imprisonments exiles exiles exiles ex ex- iles of our nobility and gentle people people people peo peo- of ot our educators religious leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers scientists professors merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants architects diplomats in intact fact tact of all civilized Russian citi clU- zens So this million was murdered Imprisoned Imprisoned imprisoned Im im- Im- Im or exiled Now said the leaders we can accomplish something for the masses Now rid of ot the bourgeoisie sie we will give the masses the great privilege of ot being made over overto overto overto to conform with our sacred theories Russians Locked In Of course some of the fue stubborn ones may not like their new medi medi- cine But we know what's good for they them them they dont So well we'll lock them in From now on no Russian can leave Russia If 11 he escapes we will persecute his mother and fa father father father fa- fa ther and brother and sister and send them to Siberian prisons We will declare him a public enemy and sentence him to lo be shot when he comes home All this will teach the rebel a n lesson So the fue frontier was enclosed by bya a steel steel ring of oC bullets and bayon bayon- ets No Russian however desperate desperate des des- Aerate can run away from the social social social so so- cial experiment Now weve we've got em said the leaders What is our first vivisection vivisection vivisection tion operation to be First well we'll amputate the church A leader labor-leader waved his hand and abolished the church The family must go next Family Family Family Fam Fam- ily unity is a capitalistic and bourgeois bourgeois bourgeois bour bour- custom dangerous to Our men women and must be beable beable beable able to love whom they please when they please please marry marry and divorce divorce divorce di di- vorce on impulse Our state will care for the children and do it better better better bet bet- ter than their parents So the family was abolished too Money they said is the source of all aU evil Money was the support of the gentry and intelli intellI- We must destroy all private private private vate wealth and all means of ot accumulating accumulating accumulating ac ac- ac- ac cumulating it lest these old antisocial antisocial antisocial anti anti- social classes come back Seize Peasants' Peasants Supplies Money tv wen went e n t next Everybody was and still is allowed to share the same poverty together But we must have industry and commerce to keep our people em em- We must sell our wheat and buy machinery We haven't enough wheat for our own needs but weve we've nothing else to export so we must seize the peasants' peasants private food sup sup- plies The supplies were seized Five million people starved to death from 1929 to 1931 There was no mourning mourning mourning mourn mourn- ing for them mourning mourning would be only orly sentimentality a cardinal sin among Bolsheviks The sacrifice had to be made for political ency The wheat was sold and machinery machInery machinery ma ma- chinery secured to make guns and tanks with which to defend the dic die There is one last and v very ry important important im im- im- im gap to be closed to complete com corn our despotism said the lead lead- ers We must use every means in our power to protect our new theories theories the the- ories orie and our new liberated masses from foreign capitalistic influences No information no counterrevolutionary counterrevolutionary counter enlightenment from rom the world outside must come in Russia Rus Rus- sia sea must be a sealed scaled box Only then can we be complete masters No foreign books not of a communistic communistic character shall cross the borders borders borders bor bor- ders no newspapers or magazines that might reveal the false happIness happiness happiness happi happI- ness of other people living under the enemy's system will be ed The movies the theater school schoolbooks schoolbooks schoolbooks books must be rigorously censored Nothing must be allowed to emerge that does not glor glorify y the working workingman man and damn the other classes That is is' exactly what the Bolshevik Bolshevik Bolshevik vik leaders have done After 17 years of ot communism not a single movie can be shown that tha t Is not political propaganda that thai does not sermonize The entire industry has become merely a stick with which to beat the The results are so appallingly dull that even the most wild-eyed wild communists attend attend attend at at- tend only from a sense of ot duty Newspapers Echo Rulers The newspapers are only echoes of the dictatorship mouthing proletarian proletarian proletarian prole prole- slogans Even the great National library the last bulwark of intellectual liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- erty was gagged The same sarno warping of ot education the same blinding of ot all else but proletarian proletarian proletarian pro pro- prejudices and principles goes straight down to the kinder kinder- garten I asked a old year year old school school- boy what they were taught in school about America and western Europe We are taught the history of the communistic revolutionary movement movement movement move move- ment in American and England he said No other history I asked History is just the lives of kings and capitalists and generals There Is nothing in it about the working clas classes es Do UDo you learn geography in your school Do you know where Argentine Argentine Argentine Argen Argen- tine is He had never heard of Argentine Nor was any other foreign country more than a vague name Such worldly knowledge as foreign geography geography geog geog- r raphy phy is not allowed even to lo the working classes The working classes Forward classes Forward the working classes That is the bat- bat the heard in Rus Rus- the Ule only cry heard cry sia One of ot the fue great Soviet leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers recently exclaimed I have given 15 years of my life to the working classes And so he had But not be it understood to the society society society so so- as a whole Only the working class Once I witnessed a gigantic demonstration demonstration dem- dem of this political patriotism patriotism patriotism patri patri- on Moscow's magnificent Red square It was to c celebrate the anniversary of the Soviet regime Workers March Two and one half million workers marched through Red square that day day day-a a river a tidal wave of hu hu- hu- hu manity Every factory every trade every school every bureau turned out with all its members with banners banners banners ban ban- ners floats placards music of a thousand kinds to prove their loyalty loyalty loyalty loy loy- alty to the sacred cause I r left leU the Red square after the first million civilians had passed I was too dizzy to endure more dizzy from the numbers of ot moving legs and heads dizzy from standing seven seven seven sev sev- en hours dizzy from the waves of ot enthusiasm and en energy that had engulfed engulfed en en- gulfed me I tottered home asking myself how such a tyranny could achieve so much how the workers' workers leaders so utterly indifferent to the lives and hearts of ot the marching millions were able to win such a magnificent cent response I r knew the answer Universal education c com complete o m p pIe l e t e emancipation of women elimination of crime prisons unemployment physical misery Surely I said there Is great good and great power in this scheme of things The intolerance the bigotry the fue constraint the Intellectual gagging which at present cut Russia off from rom the good will of the world sooner or later must weaken and pass It ItIs Itis Itis is already weakening at a rate I alarming to Bolshevik fundamental fundamental- Russia will emerge say emerge say in 25 years years from from a bath of blood and despotism Into a really civilized and progressive nation with a number number number num num- ber of at social Institutions so far ahead of ot ours that to her we will seem in some ways as backward as she once seemed to us Many of these new Ideas born with such travail we must accept and the sooner the better beller Thus ThusIs Is America going to lo develop perforce per- per force In the direction of ot new Russia's Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's enlightened attitude toward the masses while Russia at the same time lime develops towards Americas America's Ideals of ot personal and Intellectual liberty The two greatest nations in the world must some day meet I on the common ground of friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship and understanding for both will have contributed something vital vital vi vI- tal lal and md enduring each each to to the fue other d Bell Syndicate Service |