The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-03
CHILDREN DYING
UNDER BO[SHEWSM
Death Rate Raises from 81
to 400 Per 10000
Population
COMMUNISTS
NATIONALIST THEM

Taken from Mothers and Placed in So
Wet InstitutiOns-Suffer from Filth
and Disease-DoctOr Declares 1t Grim
inal Experiment.
NEW YORK. June 3.-Seyeral docu-
ments taken from official Bolshevist pub
LEGATIONS. describing the conditions I'M
der which children are living in Russia
under the Bolshevist regime are made
public by y. J. Sack. director of the Rus
sian information bureau in the United
States, representing in this country the
Russian Democratic anti-Bolsheyist
forces.
The Bolsheyist program with regard TO
the children of Russia was formulated, ac-i
cording to Mr.. Slack, by the Commissary
Liliua at the conference on public cduca-
ton held in Moscow. The official mag
azine of the commisSariat of public ed
ucation Nar0donose ProsvicSchenie
popular Educa;;onl No. 4, quotes Lilina
as saying at this conference:
we have to create cut o. the young
generations a generation of Communists.
We must make real good Communists OF
the children. for they. like wax. are cas-
lily moulded. We must remove the chill
dren from the pcrniciuuS influence of the
family. We must register the children,
or, let us speak plainly. nati0naliZe them.
Thus they viii from the very start re
main under the beneficial influence of
Communist kindergartcns and schools.
Here they viii absorb the alphabet of
Communism Here they will grow mp to
be real Communists. To compel the
mother to surrender her child to us to the
Soviet state, that is the practical task be-
fore us"
Thus Soviet institutions for children
were established. The report of the Soy
let inspection for February, describing
one Of these institutions. the Rozdestven-
ska 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
nourishment. made a painful impression.
The place itself. unventilatcd and poorly
heated. fostercd all manner of diseases
and contributed to the exceedingly high
rate Of mortality among the children. In
the course of three months the child pop
ulation of that institution renewed it
self to an extent Of 90 per cent.
In other words. nearly all of them
We're sent To the hospital, or. having
failed even to reach the hospital they
persisted while still at the nursery"
The official Bolsheyist organ on public
4
H. gives the statistical data on mortal
ity of children i'm Moscow. up to the age
of 16 years. per 10000 inhabitants. AZ
follows: 1913. 81: 1915. IS: 1918, 100
1919 3D.; 1920, 400.
Analysing the BolShevist activities
with regard to the children of Russia.
the well-knowh Russian physician, DIR.
Horn. said at the Pirogof medical con-
gress in Moscow: ..... .-.- .a..a
II am prepared to forgive the Bolshe-
wiki a great many things. almost every
thing-But one thing there is which |
cannot and will not forgive them
namely. those experiments. 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
children This crime knows no. paral-
lei throughout the history of the world
They have destroyed. morally as well as
physically. a whole Russian generation
they have destroyed it irretricyably and,
alas, beyond remedy!