Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-19
(By Catherine Breshkovskaya)

sss lby Catneftne s6reSnxoVSkaya1
 It happens very often that we do !, not understand one another only be ] cause we express two different ideas through the same words and call quite different conceptions by the same name.
 Since my coming to the United
 States 1 have been asked again and .again whether I am for or against in- tervention. I will answer plainly, as I
 have answered before. that l was for
 rendering Russia general and military
 help. While all the progressive forces
 in Russia, including the party of
 social al-revolutionists, asked the allies
 for help when the bolsheYiki betrayed
 Russia to the Germans and Count von
 Mirbach was ruling Russia through the servile Lenine and Trotzky, not a single Russian has ever asked the al- lies for intrevention.
 The difference between help and in tervention is very simple The United States of America has rendered gen. ! eral and military help to England,
 France Belgium mad Italy, and mo- l body ever called it intervention. First, the United States was fighting Ger many, the common enemy of the Unit ! ed States and the allied countries, and. fseeond, the United States landed it's
 military force upon the shores of France at the invitation of the people of France. extended through their gov ernment.
 | The allies came into Russia after the
 bolsheviki had destroyed the Russian
 army and betrayed our country to Ger ! many. The collapse of the Russian
 armies made it possible for the Ger i mans to transfer a great part of their
 forces from the eastern front to the western and thereby to endanger the i western democracies, Every one who 1 recalls the last German offensive i knows that there was got a single mo- ment more dangerous for the allied cause than the moment of this last ! German rush toward Paris
 i The bolsheviki destroyed the Rus sian front and thereby increased the :! power of German militarism to an un- i known degree. If the United States i had not sent a powerful army to l France, Germany would now be the ! victor. In addition to the crimes in I their foreign policy, which eliminated ' in the treacherous BreSt-Litozsk
 peace" with German militarists, the bolsheyiki have committed innumer- able crimes in their internal policy They have destroyed all civil liberties in Russia; freedom of speech. of the press, of assemblage and of organiza- I tion; they have filled the prisons throughout the country with their po- litical adversaries, proclaimins "'ene- mics Of the people, not only the lib-
 erals. the constitutional democratic
 party, but also the party of socialists j revolutioniStS and the social demo J crats mensheviki; that is. the parties of the Russian peaSantry and prole- i tariat. They have instituted sys- tenn of terror unequalled in cruelty and while hundreds of innocent host.
 ages would pay with their lives fol
 the assassination or for the attemp saire, they did not punish the Rec !; Guards who assassinated the two ministers of the provisional govern
 ment, kokoshkin and Shingariev while the latter were under bolshevis , arrest, lying sick in 8 hospital
 Among all the crimes of the bo1 shevikis internal policy-if we ma, , call their capricious regime of tyran ny and anarchy a policy-their great constituent assembly, elected on tht
 basis of universal, direct equal anC secret suffrage. By this act the bol
 sehvist tyrants have deprived the Rus
 sian people of the possibility of build ; ing up a truly democratic governmen ! "a government of the people. by tn people and for the people
 'i IL would De mistake to think tha 3 after the constituent assembly wa : dispersed and the Russian people de prived of the right not only to gov 2 ern themselves, but even to. spea
 and to think as they like, that tn n bolshevilki-Lenine, Trotzky and other 9 -became the real rulers of the coun = try. No. during this terrible perio i when we, Russian democrats, saw ou | Russia suffering and bleeding as neve t before, the read ruler of Russia wa l the German ambassador, Count -vo l. Mirback, who moved to Moscow an $ daily gave orders to Benine and Trot : zky Q The German armies, in spite of tn : peace, moved deeper and deepe | west. and the air was filled with ru : mors and the presentiment that nev il a decisive German offensive woul Q soon take place in the west an otfen q sive with a great chance for success