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Show RUSSIANS are ! II ALIW I LONDON, Nov. HO.- - (Correspondence (Correspon-dence of The Associated Press) Russian Rus-sian workmen and peasants are by no means united in a' movement to perpetuate per-petuate a dictatorship of the proletariat, proleta-riat, according to a traveler. Who recently re-cently arrived hero from Russia. .Pretense .Pre-tense that such is the situation ,in Russia is one ofjhc erforts of the Bolshevik Bol-shevik propagandists. For many months, he says, the Moscow Mos-cow government has been almost wholly without peasant support for the peasants have learned that Bolshevism Bolshe-vism in theory and Bolshevism in practice arc as unlike as day and) night. The people of tho Russfan vil - !( lages and country districts arc declared de-clared to be so bitter against the Bolshevik Bol-shevik that workmen who are. forced I to return to their native villages for! food tlare not voice Bolshevik dor- i trine for fear of being killed by their J relatives or former friends. I To the countrymen in Russia Bolshevism Bol-shevism now means nothing but food I requisition. To him ;f Bolshevik' is 'an oulrsidei, armed with a rifle, who I takes grain at prices far below the , market rate, . The peasant's ear is no longer open j to Maximalist theories. He cares nothing noth-ing for skilful Maximalist arguments setting forth beautiful social an economic eco-nomic doctrines. Me has tried Bolshe- ; vlsm for a year. He has had much j of his grain and other foodstuffs; wrested from him by Bolshevik grain crnsnflors. Ho InimvK thsit the nnlv re. ! maining peasant Bolsheviki are shiftless shift-less ne'er-do-wells and will have nothing noth-ing to do with thorn. As the peasants make up S5 per cent of Russia's population their attitude atti-tude eventually may shape Russian policy, says the informant. They control con-trol food production, and bread is tho basis of the present struggle. , From its inception the Bolsheviki government depended ifpon traveling! commissars who were ."hipped all over! tho republic in special trains and pro- j vided with armed forces which club- ; bed city and village governments into . line. When commissars fell -under lo- j cal influence and became less drastic) in their methods the Bolshevik au-( thorities at Smolny Institute withdrew' I them and sent others who would be more brutal in their methods. These methods worked for a time, but decreased in effectiveness in direct di-rect proportion to the distance from Moscow. When the disbanded army returned to the villages carrying arms and ammunition the peasants began to initiate Bolshevik methods. They resisted with machine guns and inau- ' gurated the movement which has lim- itcd soviet jurisdiction to less than , jOne-tenth of the old Russian empire.. |