The Holbrook news., 1921-05-13
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turned home, when he went to Russia as correspondent.
 The soviets are pretty solid pOlit ically, but economically extremely un. sound," said Mir. Fay. "They may have to give way to a firmer form of | government, and one wherein property rights must have some say. The people in the cities are the most unfortunate for they are so underfed. The govern ment sends out expeditions to reQuisi tion food from the farms, but the peasants do not take kindly to the | appropriation of their products, and are heartily opposed to the soviets, | although they will be slow to taH any action.
 Real Property Taken.
 Sometimes the peasants ambush these expeditions and kill them, but these cases have not been very numer- Ous. All real property has been taken from those who owned the land. It is not likely that they will ever be able to recover any of it. but all this prOpa- ganda by those who have come out of Russia and have lost their estates will be of little avail, in my belief, for it Is extremely unlikely that Russia will re- turn to the old form of government.
 "There are very few Americans in Russia now. The government does not take kindly to visitors, and travelling has been made very difficult They do not like to have travellers come through from Siberia, and no one is allowed to enter from the southern countries of Asia. Another newspaper man and my self were the only two Americans con- ing through from Siberia, and when we arrived in Moscow the authorities did not seem to like it, but finally they sent us through to Finland, and in this way we came out of the country.
 "In Siberia Americans are very popu- lar, as America has done a great deal for Siberia in sending clothing and other aid to the people. and also be- cause the United States government did not recognize KOlchak. But the Russian people in the more western areas are very bitter toward us, as they feel that we offer greater re- sistance than any other country, and they say that we are the last strong hold of capitalism. Their ideas are that communism is bound to prevail all over the world, and that they wip win out
 Issue Ration Cards.
 "Rations are served to every one in Russia, but there is really great order there. A traveller gets one pound of black bread a day and one-half pound of sausage and some salt, sugar and tea, but the residents only get one pound of black bread and no sausage. They give you ration cards for which you can draw from the government stores, but only one meal a day. You must buy the rest from whatever sources you may be able to find. There are government restaurants and there are also some public markets in Mos cow, but the government means to eventually control all food products and dispense with the public markets; they would do that now, but they find it difficult to prevent those that are open.
 "There is no gasoline to run the trucks and automobiles, but they use as a substitute a spirit made from potatoes. This is also drunk quite gen. orally as stimulant. It is poorly made alcohol and not so good as the vodka that they used to have in former times. but it is consumed in great quantities. Prohibition prevails, though, all over Russia and it seems to be a good thing.
 "The American dollar is now wortL from POGO to 5000 rubles, but the money has to be exchanged secretly While I was in Moscow I heard that Emma Goldman and Berkman had been sent out to one of the Russian prov. inces to collect data on some pretext or another, as they were very unwel. come to the Bolsheviki. The govern. ment was greatly annoyed that the United States should send anarchists l to Russia. as they do not recognize | them there. The soviet form is moi anarchistic."
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