Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-03
WHAT BOLSHEVISTS
PLAN FOR CHILDREN.
(BY Edgar T. Higgins)

CumentS taken from Official Boil
shevist publications, describing
the conditions under which chill
dren are living in Russia under
the Bolshevist regime are made
public by A. ]. Sack, director Of
the Russian Information Bureau,
in the United States, representing
in this country the Russian dem
ocratic and anti-Bolshevist
forces.
The Bolshevist program with
regard to the children OF Russia
was formulated according to Mr..
Sack, by the Commissary Lilina
at the conference on public edu-
cation held in Moscow. The Of
fetal magazine of the Commits
sariat of Public Education, Mar
odonoye Prosvieschenine (popu-
lar education) No 4, quotes Lii.
ma as saying at this conference
Owe have to create out of this
generation a generation of Com
munists. We must make real,
good Communists of the children,
for they, like wax, are easily
moulded. We must remove the
children from the pernicious in.
luence Of the family. We must
-egister the children, or, let US
peak plainly. nationalize them.
Thus they will from the very
tart remain under the beneficial!
influence of Communist kinder
gartens and schools. Here they
viii absorb the alphabet of Com
nuniSm. Here they will grow up !
o be real Communists. To COM
bel the mother to surrender the
hid to Us, to the Soviet state, /
hat is the practical task before
is"
Thus Soviet institutions forD
,hildren were established. The
-eport of the Soviet Inspection
or February. describing one of
.hese institutions, the Rozdest-
1enskia nursery in Petrograd,t
says: F.
The children. left to their own
Ieviccs. under the supervision Of
inexperienced and rough-spoken
nurses. with fl;thy clothing. pale
rom lack of sufficient nourish-i
nent. made a painful impression. /
The place itself, tmventilated and
poorly heated, fostered all man
1er Of diseases and contributed to 4
he exceedingly high rate of NOR
.ality among the children. In the
course OF. three months the child |
population Of that institution re-
newed itself to an extent OF 90i
Der cent.
''In other words, nearly all Of
hem were sent to the hospital, or
having failed even to reach the
hospital, they persisted while still
1t the nursery"
The official Bolshevist organ on
Oubic~health, Izvestia Zradvook-
hranenia, No. II, gives the sta
tistical data on mortality of chill
1ren in Moscow up to the age OIL
10 wears, per 10000 inhabitants,
as follows: 1918, 81; 1915. 70; i
1918, 100; 1919, 372; 1920, 400.
Analysing the Bolshevist activ-
tiles with regard to the children
of Russia, the we'll known Rus
sian physician, DR.. Horn, said at
the Pirogoff Medical Congress
in Moscow:
81 am prepared to forgive thei,
Bolsheviki great many things,
almost everything But one think Il
there is which I cannot and will
not forgive them: namely, those
positively criminal
and worthy of the most savage
tribes of the African jungle,
which the Bolsheviki have been
making all this time with our
young generation, with Our chill
dren! This crime knows no par
allel throughout the history of
the world. They have destroyed
morally as we'll as physically,
whole Russian generation; they
Rave DESTROYED it irretrievably.