The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-06-24
.LEN|N GIVING IN,
KRASS|N ASSERTS
Russian Soviet Admits Failure of
Communism and Seeks Capt.
tai to Save Country.
VANDERBILT DEAL is OPEN
American Was Required to Deposit a
Forfeit, and Has Not-Belief
That Revolution Will Break
Out In Europe.

Paris.-A confessional account Of
the reasons for Lenin's changes of pol
icy is published in an interview with
Krassin, given in London to the corre-
spondent of the Petit Parisien. AL
most cynically, Krassin admits that
the BOlshevist regime has failed and
that Lenin has been compelled to
change it by the failure of the Boil
shevik to provoke communist revo-
luton in the rest of Europe or even
convert his own people and especially
the Russian peasant to communism.
kraSSin said:
1--WE have led the army of the Rus
sian proletariat as if the armies OF
the other proletariats were winning
the same victories. Resolutely we
went forward. 1t was a risk that
might have succeeded. But now Lenin
sees that he holds alone the Outpoints
of progress. He has advanced too lar.
He cannot maintain his position, and,
though his faith has not weakened in
the slightest, he feels compelled to
make a strategic retreat-an unfortu-
nate but inevitable move of which he
has had the courage to proclaim the
necessity"
That a revolution will break out lat
er in Europe, Krassin declared he was
completely convinced, but Lenin was
now of the opinion that it would come
slowly.
HE has, therefore," says Krassin,
changed his tactics, and on account
of the international situation and eco
nomic laundering of the country has
decided that instead of trying to crush
them he must come to an arrangement
with the interior opposition Of peas
arts and the exterior opposition Of the
capitalists.
In Krassin's opinion, Lenin can easi-
ly overcome the opposition of theo-
retical Bolsheviki like Bukharin and
set himself to winning the support of
the peasants by modified regime.
Not even the poorest peasants are
communists, Krassin admits. They
never have been, and they never Will
become communists for the love of orr
beautiful eyes. If only we had some
thing to give them-machines, cloth
manufactured stuff-in return for their
produce we could quickly make them
understand the advantages of COM
munsm. That, it is Lenin's idea, is
the first and most essential task to be
undertaken and he is going to set
about it."
The second half of the Soviet pro-
gram as explained by the Soviet ennis
sary to England appears also based on
the conviction that the time has come
to deal in realities in order to insure
confidence. In explaining it, KFassin
said:
"We want from the west, in order
to win the support of the peasants and
to establish our hegemony in Russia,
material aid in the shape of manufac-
tured articles and technical aid from
specialists capable of exploiting our
immense resources. To obtain these
we must give, and what we have to
give is gold, raw materials or conces-
sions. Up to now we have paid for
everything in gold, and our present
contracts for boots, cloth and food
stand about f5,OOO,O0O to England. ST.
100000 crowns to Sweden, 3,OO0,O ,OOO,-
600 marks to Germany and $4,000
600 to America. But our gold must
come to an end and our scarcity of
transport makes it difficult to export
raw materials. We have so far ex-
ported only very little. There, there
fore, remains only the granting of con-
cessiOns."
He then went on to explain that the
re-establishment of private property in
Russia was not in any way essential.
The capitalist, ''enticed by our
wealth." he said, will have to under
stand that the basis fer his work in
Russia cannot exist except by means
of. a contract between him and the
Soviet government. Figuratively ad-
dressing the capitalist, the Bolshevik
delegate continued:
Moreover, you will derive from this
contract more than before the war,
and while you are making your for
tune we won't be selling Russia, for
we will remain masters of our own
soil. We will never consent to mo-
nopoies, and even your concession
will come back to us when we have
extracted sufficient profit
There could not ever be a govern
ment more radical than ours, so that
if there is revolution it will be in the
direction of a reacti.s~1ry government,
which will be quite certain to keep
the engagement we have entered into
with foreigners"