Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04
Red Gospel for
All Children in .
BOlShevist Russia

New YORK, June 3-Several docu-
ments taken from official Bolshevist
publications, describing the condi-
tons under which children are living
i'll Russia under the Bolshevist re-
gime are made public by A. j. Sack,
Director of tho Russian Information
Bureau in the United States, repre-
senting in this country the Russian
democratic anti Bolshevist forces.
The Bolshevist program with re-
gard to the children of Russia was
form ulated, according TO Mr.. Sack,
by the Commissary Lilina at the Con-
ference on Public Education held in
Moscow The Official magazine of
the Commissa riat of Public Edu-
cation. Narodonoye Prosvieschenie
popular Education) No. !. quotes
Lilna as saying at this Conference:
I'VE have to create out Of the
young generation a generation of
Communists. We must make real,
they. like wax. are easily moulded.
We must remove the children from
the pernicious influence of the fam
lily, We. must register the children.
or, let US speak plainly, nationalize
them, Thus they will from the very
start remain under the beneficial in
fuence Of Comm unist kindergartens
and schools. Here they will absorb
iAhe alphabet Of Communism. Here
! they will grow UP to be real Com
munists. TO compel the mother to
surrender her child to us, to the
Soviet state, that is the practical
task before u.s.
Thus Soviet institutions for chill
dren We're established. The report
of the Soviet Inspection for Febru-
AIRY. describing one of these institu-
tons, the Rozdestv enskia Nursery in
Petrograd, says:
The children, left to their own
devices under the supervision of
inexperienced and rough spoken
nurses. with filthy clothing. pale
from lack of sufficient nourish-
ment. made a painful impression.
The. place itself, unventilated and
poorly heated, fostered all manner
of diseases and contributed to the
exceedingly high rate of mortality
among the children. In the course
of three months the child popula-
ton of that institution renewed it.
self to an extent of 90 percent.
In other words. nearly all of
them were sent to the hospital. or,
having failed even to reach the hos
ptaI. they persisted while still at the
Nursery"
The official Bolshevist organ on
Public Health, Izvestia Zradvookhra
nenia, No. II. gives the statistical
data on mortality of children in
Moscow. up to the age Of is years,
per 10000 inhabitants. as follows:
1913. 81: 1915. IS; 1918. 100; 1919.
81: 1920, 400.
Analysing the Bolshevist activities
with regard to the children of Rus
STA, the well known Russian physi-
clan, DR.. Horn, said at the Pirogoff
Medical Congress in Moscow:
Il am prepared to forgive the Boil
sheviki a great many things, almost
everything. bul oHS 'hihS
there is which l cannot and will not
forgive them namely. those expert
ments. positively criminal and worthy
of the most savage tribes of the
African jungle. which the Bolshevikl
have been making all this time with
our young generation, with our chill
dren. This crime knows no parallel
tbrnuohout the history of the world.
They have destroyed. morally as well
as physically, whole Russian gen.
Grafton; they have destroyed 1T If
retrievably and, alas, beyond rem
edv!