Show HOW LONG CAN RUSSIA wl ft 9 4 Z Y ca 46 ai V 74 7 U N 4 Z on halliburton wonders tyranny supposed to save citizens u souls children are taught only communism above the military parade rolled through the red square for four hours to salute stalin who stands sta ads on an a corner of lenins tomb the kremlin Is at ai the left st basils church in the background the stands to either side of the tomb are holding spectators right st basils cathedral at the end of the red square in moscow Alo scow Is one of the worlds strangest I 1 but ut beautiful buildings by RICHARD KICHARD author ot of the royal road to romance etc M MOSCOW U S S R russia ive seen russia and now I 1 can believe in miracles for there is no word to describe the picture of russia today other than miraculous and I 1 do not mean that the picture is miraculously beautiful in many ways it Is unbelievably ugly I 1 stand and look at it with fascinated and astonished eyes but for nothing on an earth would I 1 personally under the present scheme of things endure the enslavement and tyranny which its citizens must suffer who have been saved according to the gospel of karl marx the old c z a r I 1 s t government gained the detestation of its subjects because of its notorious despotism but compared to the government of today life under the czar was free as a spring breeze the wonder of wonders is the ease and power with which this new system of super despotism works A handful of labor leaders consumed with communistic theory and fanatical zeal sit on high within the kremlin walls their eyes fixed on a book of political and social notions and proceed to experiment on the lives and souls of human beings with as much impersonal detachment as a bac bacteriologist terl experiments with germs center attack on czar in the beginning 1917 the proletarian leaders who had seized control of russia said the czar has proved himself the tha greatest obstacle in the way of our lifting the masses of workers out of their slough of ignorance and mis ery first of all then it if we are to improve our lot we wa must ext exterminate erml the czar his wife his four daughters and his young son perhaps a bit brutal but youve got to be tough to get anywhere and so tile the czar and his entire family were shot and the aristocrats and intelligentsia must go next never take to our ideas Adeas about exalting the factory workers and to the throne that means about a million murders imprisonments exiles of our nobility and gentle people of our educators religious leaders scientists professors merchants architects diplomats in fact of all civilized russian citizens so this million was murdered imprisoned or exiled now said the leaders we can accomplish something for the rn masses asses now rid of the bourgeoisie ws we will give the masses the great privilege of being mada made over to conform without with our sacred theories russians locked la in of course some of the stubborn ones may not like their new medicine but we know good for them they dont so well lock them in from now on no russian can leave russia if he escapes we MH persecute his mother and father and brother and sister and send them to siberian prisons we will declare him a public enemy end and sentence him to be shot when he comes home all this will teach the rebel a lesson so the frontier was enclosed by a steel ring of bullets and bayon A IM i 1 K ets no russian however desperate can run away from the social experiment now weve got lem em said the leaders what Is our first vivisection operation to be first well amputate the church A labor leader waved his hand and abolished the church the family must go next family unity Is a capitalistic and bourgeois custom dangerous to communism our men man and women must be able to love whom they please when they please marry and divorce on impulse our state will c care are for the children and do it better than their parents so the family was abolished too money they said is the source of all evil money was them the support of the gentry and intelligentsia gen gent tsia sla we must destroy all private wealth and all means of accumulating it lest le st these old antisocial classes come back seize peasants su supplies p plies money we went 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 employed we must sell our wheat and buy machinery we enough wheat for our own needs but weve nothing else to export so we must seize the peasants private food supplies the supplies were seized five million people starved to death from 1929 to 1931 there was no mourning for thern them mourning would be only sentimentality a cardinal sin among bolsheviks the sacrifice had to be made for political expediency the wheat was sold and rn machinery a secured to make guns and tanks with which to defend the dictatorship ship there Is one last and very important gap to be closed to complete our despotism said the leaders we must use every means in our power to protect our new theories and our new liberated masses from foreign capitalistic influences no information no counter revola enlightenment from the world outside must come in russia o must be a sealed box only then can we be complete ma masters no foreign books not of a communistic character shall cross the bor ders no newspapers or magazines that might reveal the false happl happi ness of other people living under system willbe tolerated the movies the theater school books must be rigorously censored nothing must be allowed to emerge that does not glorify the working man and damn the other classes that is exactly what the vik leaders have done after 17 years of communism not a single movie can be shown that Is not political propaganda that does not sermonize the entire industry has become merely astick a stick with which to beat the capitalists the results are so co appallingly dull that even the most wild eyed communists attend only from a sense of duty newspapers echo rulers the newspapers are only echoes of the dictatorship mouthing proletarian slogans even the great national library the last bulwark of intellectual liberty was gagged the some same warping of education the same blinding of all else but proletarian le prejudices and principles goes straight down to the kindergarten I 1 asked a fifteen year old school boy what they were taught in school about america and western europe we are taught the history of the communistic revolutionary movement in american and england he said no other history I 1 asked history is just the lives of kings and capitalists and generals there is nothing in it about the working classes do you learn geography in your school do you know where argentine is lie he had never heard ot of arg argentine entine nor was any other foreign country more than a vague name such worldly knowledg eias foreign geography is not allowed even to the working classes the working classes forward the working class classes esl that is the bat the only cry heard in russia one of the great soviet leaders recently exclaimed 1 I have given 15 years of my life to the working classes and so he had but not be it understood to the solety society c as a whole only the working class once I 1 witnessed a gigantic demonstration on of this political patriotism on Mos cows magnificent red square it was to celebrate the anniversary of the soviet regime workers march two and one half million workers marched through red square that day a river a tidal wave of humanity every factory every trade every school every bureau turned out with all its members with banners floats placards music of a thousand kinds to prove their loyalty to the sacred cause I 1 left the red square after the first million civilians had passed I 1 was too dizzy to endure more dizzy from the numbers ot of moving legs and heads dizzy from standing seven hours dizzy from the waves ot of enthusiasm and energy that had engulfed me I 1 tottered home asking myself how such a tyranny could achieve so much how the workers leaders so utterly indifferent to the lives and hearts of the marching millions were able to win such a magnificent response I 1 knew the answer universal al education complete emancipation of women elimination of crime prisons unemployment physical misery surely I 1 said aid s there Is great good and great power in this scheme of things the intolerance the bigotry the constraint the intellectual gagging which at present cut russia off from the good will of the world sooner or later must weaken and pass it Js Is already weakening at a rate alarming to bolshevik fundamentalists russia will emerge emer gesay say to in 25 years from a bath of blood and despotism into a really civilized and progressive nation with a number of social institutions I 1 so 0 far ahead ot of ours that to her we will seem in some ways as backward backward as she once seemed to us many of these new ideas born with such tra travail vall we must accept and the sooner the better thus Is america going to develop perforce in the direction of new rus nus sias enlightened attitude toward the masses while russia at the same sama time develops towards americas ideals of personal and intellectual liberty the two greatest nations in the world must some day meet on the common ground of friendship and understanding for both will have contributed something vital and enduring each to the other 0 bell syndicate Berv service fc |