The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-09-22

Victims Of Starvation Under Per-
secution Of BoIshevik Regime
in Russia.
INTELLIGENCE NOW 4 CRIME
Aged Philosophers Ars Left to Fate
In Dirty Prisons at Will OF the
Reds-Many Great Professors
',sE4 Among the Victims. r

New York.-Several letters from
scientists living under the Bolshevist
regime in Russia and other documents
describing the conditions 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. represent
ing in this country the Russian demo-
cratic anti-Bolshevist forces. This ma
terial came to Mr.. Sack through Prof.
Boris Sokoloff, a leading member OF
the party Of Socialist-Revolutionists
and deputy to the First All-Russian
constitutional assembly. Professor
vakia. ~,
The statement says that according
to official Bolshevist statistics 40
Russian scientists died of starvation
during the last three years.
The names of the Russian scientists
who wrote these letters were not
given, as this, it is said, would expose
them to Bolshevist persecution. De
scribing the conditions under which
the scientists are nov living In Rus
STA, Professor X, writes:
These years have been one continu-
u 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"
Government by Faisehood. =.
Professor of Philosophy U. writes
that he looks upon the tragic situation
with interest calmly, as BELTS a phi
losopher. Just as calmly as l consider
the fact that in m7 Don the water is
freezing and that / am eating oats, in
stead of bread and meat. All these dis
comforts Of soviet Russia / regard
quite calmly.
"But there is one aspect Of life un-
der the soviet rule which compels me
to despise that rule. This is their
boundless falsehood. Every day, on
the pages of their silly newspapers, in
their speeches, in their books-there
are faIsehood and deceit. everywhere"
Professor w. Writes:
mo, there can be no understanding
between me and the B%olsheviki. I am
an old, feeble man, hardly able to.
move, with feet swollen with sores
from the cold and hungry winter. Yet
they are keeping me in solitary con
finement."
Aged Scientist Tortured.
Finally, Assistant Professor <.
writes:
ct was hard to watch the sufferings
of Evgraph Stephanovitch professor
Federoff, the crystallographer). Aged,
gray, emaciated from hunger, he had
grown SO weak the last few days that
he was unable even to get up from
bed. / came to visit him. l brought
linn a little stale bread, which | had
difficulty in obtaining, for | had no
money. He grasped the bread eagerly.
He took a bite, and then he stopped:
"'You are young, better eat your
self; as for me, it is time for me to
die"
"And yainly did / try to urge him
to take some bread and Cruel. J"
The first issue Of the journal,
Science and It's Workers, published re-
Gently by the Committee for the Inn
provement Of the Condition of Scien-
lists in Petrograd, contains In its in
troductory article q list Of Russian sci
entists who died of hunger and
restitution during the last few months
OF 1920. This list cites the following
names: Prof. ". a. Bernatsky (physic-
ist), v. Z. Bernatsky ~tzoologist),
Prof. s. a. Vengeroy, Prot. N. A.
Gezechus, N. Il Hecker (physicist),
Prot. D. I. Dubiago l~astronomer), Y.
Al. Molzaleysky (historian), Prof. v.
". Poloyizov (botanist), Prot. b.
s. F'ederof lcrystallographer), Prot.
r. X. Sternberg (astronomer). and a.
"A. Shakhmatov (acadenician).
1T this process of the dying out o.
Scientists says the Journal. will con-
tinue at this rate our country will be
entirely deprived Of Its brain The
life of q scientist Ia times ri ter
rible, al regards his physical environ
ment, and III torture morally
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