Evening star., 1921-05-27
ANARCHY IN WAKE
Of LEN|N'S FALL
End of BoIshevism Would MOI
Unite Russia. Political
Students Declare.
MIGHT TAKE $50 YEARS
Deterioration Under the Present
Regime So Complete as to Dis
courage Future Hopes.
isy the Associated Press.


RIGA. LetNia. May - Even were ii"
Russian bolshcvik regime 10 co!lapS'
immediately the dream OF a now unite:
Russia is Impossible of realization 70,
decades TO come. in the opinion Of y"
l:tical students government officials an:
business men in tho three Baltic states
E,Sthonia. Letvia and Lithuauia -haNlni
diplomatic missions NJ MOSCOW.
These men disagree on the time ne"
essary to build UP a now Russia. SOME
sowing il will take 80 wears. whit
others believe fifty Years viii he sutf
cien;. All agree. however, th" fall q
tho regime headed by Nkolai t.enln
will be followed by a long period o. an
archv when photographic unit atf"i
ethnosrar rhic unit of the myriad-tonsu"a
empire would break away ana Tor"
separate states.
! Opinion Of Leaders.
This n,inion was expressed 10 the cor
respondent by Prof. Pip, Esthonisn nun
lister of foreign affairs and lecturer ~
porpat University on political ana ms
torical subjects NJ. Schumann. under'
secretary for foreign affairs of the i.e''
Wan Covcrnrnent: pr. kasnir 'iIiniuS
minister-prcs ident OF Lithuania, and
dozens of other students who arc in Il
| position to view tho Russian situa tioh
| at close range cake :imit"r ~"
/ After I.enin-what" is the qreS-
| tion most disturbing TO those Clin u
the political destinies of the infant
Ral.ic states, Men inihe foreign oHlc"s
! Of each state admit the economic ne
| tucndcnce of Esthonia. i.etNla ana
| Lithuania upon Russia. Some OF tnen
otin,it the possibility. but at some dlS-
tant date. of some kind OF loosely
| woven Russian federation which these
states might join. But that is so far
| in the future. these men say. that
| pra cti cally all OF the ethnoSrap phlo
units of Russia would have to 60
through anarchy into independence
before the three states that have two
years start on the others would con-
sent TO join in united Russia
Separated states Progress.
Lithuania. Letvia and Esthonia con-
itend. as governments. That IN the
short period of time since they over
threw the bolsheviki and launched
new nations they have made much prog =
irass. and they are gaining day by day
the stability that will take the rest
of Russia still under the bolsheNlN
| regime. years to attain
4 NJ Martus of New York. a l.ithu-
nian-Amcrican at the head of the
united Baltic organizations. which are
uromoting a Baltic alliance. recently
returned from a months investigation
in Moscow. He summed up the situa-
tion by saying:
"Russians in America Paris and
elsewhere who are still contending
United Russia would be possible inn
mediately after the fall of bolshevisn
are cherishing a vain dream. i was
just in Moscow. II will take l5o years
to restore anything like normal con
ditions in Russia. The Baltic states
are progressing. while inner Russia
is deteriorating. Do you think for q
minute that the states which haNt
broken away would consent TO entel
an alliance that would mean for the N
, descent in the same disorgaA, zatior
through which they have afread!
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