The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-03
S0VIETS KILL
 ALLEDUCATORS
 OF OLD CLASS

Madison, Wis, Dec. 3-Michae1 I. Rostovsteff. formerly professor of Russian history of the University of ,Petrograd and now professor of an Wisconsin, declares that Russian professors and intellectuals are being gradually exterminated by the Bol- eheviki and that they are attempting to build up a new intellectual class. rt "The aim of the Bolsheviki is to make of the 'bourgeoiSe, or better, 1ntellectua1 Russia tabula asa, void place, and to fill this place with d new intellectual class educated in the Bolshevist ideas" Professor Ros- tovsteff said. "The reality shows that instead of this communistic class, a class of greedy pro6teers and demor- place the class which gave to the world To1stoi, Dostoievski, Tschaikov- sky and a great number of others in felds of science, art and l1tera- lure"
 l Professor Rostovsteff, who came to the university this year from the College of Paris, has been in con- stant touch with former intellec tpal Readers of his country since he left zt after the first year of the Bol- shevist regime. He fled to Sweden from Petrograd and later went to England where he taught in Oxford University.
 "Some of the professors and intel 1ectuals are systematically extermin- ated by the Bolsheviki as in Khar- kov. Odessa, Kiev and Rostov, the professor said. According to re- 7 ports I receive from South Russia, most of the inteI1ectuals who did not fly before the occupation of these towns by the Bo1sheviki were impris- oned as counter-revoluionar and executed.
 "Some are destined to die of starv- ation. This is the case for almost -. all of the professors who remained ]. in Petrograd and Moscow. The last reports I received from these cities uote many names of Russian scholars well known to all specialists in Vest ern Europe and America, as having died of starvation.
 ssProfessor Schachmated, member of the Russian and different foreign acade demies, died because he could not stand the terrible conditions of life in Petrograd Professor Turaied, 8 member of the same academy, died literally of starvation. Professor Pokrovsli, a famous specialist in Ro- man law, succumbed after having carried q bundle of wood to the sixth story of a big house.
 Professor Vikotrov another noted specialist in law, ended his suffering
 ssrhe last news received about the world-known physiologist, the Russian Claude Bernard, Professor Padlov, reports that he is living in poor house in a suburb of ePtrograd, starving and freezing, and would hardly withstand the hardships of the coming winter"
 Professor Rostovsteff says that out of the 52 provinces in Russia ten face actual starvation as a result of poor crops this year, 30 face partial starva- ton because their production of food stuffs was not sufficient to sustain all of the population, while 12 will have a slight surplus that cannot well be distributed.
 sgs Because of the poor transportation Conditions and because peasants re- fuse to give up their crops to the city people. There will doubtless be uprisings in Russia this winter, Pro- lessor Rostovstef said. These, he said, would be put down easily by the Bolsheviki because of their organiZa- ton and the apathy of the people to- ward politics and toward their form of government. This apathy was largely responsible for the strength of the present government in Pro lessor Rostovsteff's opinion and ht believes that it will continue in power despite outside attempts to disrup tbe system.