The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-05


regime?
Poor People of Ru-~;o i,-'.ed to
Hatred Against All Others.
Owing To Ine4r neg.CS,Su -~.4uition
under the old czarist regime, the mass
of the peasants. with little or no ed
ucation. kept in subjugation by the
ministry, the military and the priests.
had the most primitive ideas about the
fupnction of government. They were
easily inflamed by pictures of a Utopia
which could not possibly be realized.
They were easily led to a passionate
hatred of not onuly the rich but of
common men and women who had ac-
cumulated small homes and home
steads by their labor.
All that Bolshevism accomplished,
however, was to bring on a state Of
anarchy and wholesale destruction and
murder. Promised social reform in
proprietorship of land and in in(Es-
Try have resulted only in the de-
struction of factories and business
and in the failure to cultivate vast
caches of land which formerly pro-
duced the food upon which Russia
lived.
Factories were burned by mobs led
by Bolsheviks. And even where land
was divided among the mob. it was
impossible to work it because of lack
of farm tools and machinery.
Men who knew how to run factories
to produce goods were either murder
ed or forced to conceal themselves.
The peasants, who had owned their
farms before the revolution, produced
only enough food last summer to sat
isfy their. own needs, because they
knew the Bolsheviki would confiscate
their crops or pay for it in money
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Of unrestricted Bolshevism the Rus
sian country people can get no ma
terial for clothing and shoes, no man
ufactured goods of any kind. while in
the cities the people cry in agony
for food.
How Russia Was Turned Into Vast
SHAMELESS by Boisheviki.
The leaders of the Bolsheviks have
blamed this condition of affairs upon
the sabotage of the bourgeoisie"
middle class). Thus the passion of
the disappointed mob was turned
away from their new rulers and upon
those unable to defend themselves.
Only one class was safe and that
was composed of the lowest and worst
elements fsociety. There was dang
er in a clean collar or decent ap-
pearance. Safety lay in being dirty
and unkempt. I am not referring
merely to the danger to the so-called
upper class, the mobiles. the rich land
owners, the higher government off,.
cials under the old regime, the army
and navy officers. They were either
compelled to flee or hide or face death.
They We're beyond the pale Of the
law, which meant that anyone could
kill them with impunity, under the
pretext that they were dangerous to
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counter-revolutionar Russia was
thus turned into a vast shambleS.
But there was even as great danger
to the so-called "Bourgeoise'' or mid
die class-the professors the skilled
mechanics, the small merchants and
shop-keepers, the small land-owning
farmers, anybody who had a little
property. They We're at the mercy of
any hood1um or criminal who CHANGED
to be in control IF ~ 49,
Arbitrary arrests became the order
of the day, ofiio"et. - -
ecutions, as well as the official ones
which occurred with appalling regu-
larity and frequency. In the Crime, in
the Caucasus, in the territory of the
Don Cossacks, at Moscow and other
places in the first class handed over
to the mob were the former officers
and the "intelligentsia" comprising
the learned professions and public Of
ficers.
At Odessa all the officers, particu-
larly those Of the fleet wehe hunted
down, dragged to the water front and
thrown into the sea, first having had
weights fastened to their feet so they
could not swim.
Forest of Swayins Bodies in the
Depths of Odessa Harbor.
After the Germans took Odessa and
restored some semblance Of order, a
woman whose two sons, former Rus
sian naval officers, had been thus
drowned, desired to have their bodies
recovered so she could give them
Christian burial She hired two divers
to go to the bottom of the harbor.
One came up with his hair turned gray
from what he found. The other came
up, a mailman, constantly muttering:
This is how they are swaying."
s AT Rostov on the Don, the Bolshe-
Wiki shot all the students at the high
school because some of the students
had joined Kornilov's forces. The
mothers of some of the boys tried to
save them and We're shot down too.
Those, who Survived, published
pitiful protest in the newspapers. For
doing this, the editors were forced
to suspend publication.
At Kiev, BolshevilS patrols paced
up, and down the street and shot peo-
pie who looked suspicious to them.
Former army officers were shot
down in open places outside the city
by dozens as il they were game birds.
At Petrograd and Moscow the Boil
sheviks took especial glee IN hunting
and killing the so-called 'sYunkers."
These were the military cadets, the
future officers of the army, who, as
rule, were young students who had
volunteered for one years service.
They were willed openly in the streets
of Petrograd and their bodies tossed