Evening journal., 1921-06-29
RUSSIA UNKIND
TO SCIENTISTS
Considered Parasites; Not
Allowed Enough Food
For Existence
42O DEATHS IN
LAST THREE YEARS

NEW YORK.-several letters
from scientists living under the
Bolshevist regime in Russia and
other documents describing the con-
ditions under which the Russian
scientists are living at present, are
made public by A. J. Sack. director
of the Russian Information Bureau
in the United States. representing in
this country the Russian democratic
anti Bolshevist forces. This mater
came to Mr. Sack through Prof.
Bori. Sokoloff, leading member
of ,e party Of Socialists r svolu-
tionists and Deputy to the First ALI
Russian Constituent Assembly. Pro-
fessor Sokoloff is now in Prague,
Czecho- o-Siovakia.
The names OF the Russian scien-
lists who wrote these letters were
not given. as this. Il is aid. would
expose them to Bolshevi5, persecu-
tion. Describing the conditions un-
der which the scientists are now liv-
ing in Russia. Professor y writes;
These years have been one con-
tinuous horror. We were
declared by the Bolsheviki to be
parasites and drones. and we were
deprived even OF that miserable food
allowance which the workers and
the soldiers have been receiving"
Professor Of Philosophy u writes
that he looks upon the tragic situa-
tion with interest. calmly, as be-
fits a philosopher. Just as calmly as
consider the fact that in my room
the water is freezing and that / am
eating oats instead OF bread and
meat. All these discomforts OF
soviet Russia I regard quite calmly
"But there is one aspect OF life
under the soviet rule which compel'
me TO despise that rule. This Is
their boundless falsehood.
Every day. on the pages OF theii
silly newspapers. in their speeches
in their books there is falsehooc
and deceit everywhere"
Professor w Writes:
NO. there can be no misunder
standing between me and the Boil
shevikL am an old. feeble man
hardly able 10 move. with feet swol
len with sores from the cold and
hungry winter Yet they are keep
ing me in solitary confinement"
Finally Assistant Professor )
writes;
1T was hard to watch the suffer
lings Of Exgraph Stepanovitch (Pro
fessor Fedoroff. the crystallo
grapher). Aged. gray. emaciate'
from hunger. he had grown so veal
1.-THE last few days that he was un
able even 10 get up from bed
. came to visit him. I brought him
: little stale bread. which ! had dihi
( Guilty in obtaining. for had n
p money. He took a bite and the
; he stopped.
s You are young. better eat your
self; as for me, it is time for me
2 die
? And vainly did 7 try TO urge hir
3 to take some bread and Cruel"
, The statement says that accordin
70 official Bolshevist statistics. ~
2 Russian scientists died OF starvatio
b during the last three years. TIL
first issue OF the journal. "ScienC
+, and Its Workers" published recent
r by the Committee for the Improve
e ment Of the Condition OF Scientist
Z in Petrograd. contains in its intro
e ductory article a list OF Russia
. scientists who died OF hunger an
destitution during the last fe
Z months OF 1920. This list cites tn
:. following names:
70 Prof. V. A. Bernatsly. .physicis
@ v l. Blank. zoologist: Prof S. Z
e Vengerov. Prof n. a. Gezechus. J
e L. Hecker physicist; Prof. d.
r Dubiago. astronomer; V. A. Molz'
u levslSy, historian: Prof. V. V. Po
ovtzov. botanist; Prof e. S. Federo
crystaliographer; Prof. p. X. ster1
berg. astronomer. and A. F. Shal
= hmatov. academician.
d IT this pr "a IS OF the dying OF
i- OF scientists" says the journal. W
continue at MS rate. our count
will be entirely deprived OF its brai
The life Of a scientist in our tim
is terrible. as regards his physic
= environment and is a torture mo
y ally"