Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-08
Reconstruction
IN PROGRESS IN
SOVIET RUSSIA
Cracking of Rifles of
Squads of EXecutioners
May Be Heard With the
Workers Hammers.

| RECONSTRUCTION Oh DullulHBS liLVubh
| out the land.
That reconstruction has begun
and that the Soviet has not changed
its unrelenting and ruthless poilcy
| toward its political foes, are TWO
outsta. ding phases Of the RUSSIAN
situation evident to the correspond
| cnt Of the Associated Press who mas
| come to Riga after an eight-month
stay in Russia.
Hardly a day passes but some
where in the country the death
sentence for political offenses IS
made effective, but at the same
| time no day dawns without the be-
pinuinP of some new task, the puf-
pose of which is to put III order
buildings and streets that We're
wrecked during the revolution
! Prisoners doomed to die look from
their windows out on busting street
scenes and smiling people who nave
forgotten politics in the pleasure OF
building new fortunes as traue
| opens up. j.,
There have been no changes IN
the fundamental policies OF inc
| soviet government, but its tactlcs
now seem 10 be strilingly summed
I'M in the phrase of foreign or
! eerver Mt Moscow: assist or wink
Mt ANYTHING which ultimately he!ps
nm in the reconstruction of Russia;
relentlessly crush any one VINO
dares TO raise his hand against US
politically" ~
SpccuIators Flourish.
( 81, hut
ernment Is busy dcvls1ng means W
get their money away from thelli'
These men pay heavy taxes; olhe
lat stupendous prices In taN-pur
ldened restaurants, and play bac-
Icarat for high stakes at night III
lthe casinoes from which the gov
Iernment takes the lions share
Iof the profits. TO the spectators
the government is like the Gods oil
lOlympus. permitting its children
Ito play ut business, but threatening
Them with n thunderbolt If they
dare to take part in the political
lgame.
The government makes no secret
lof its dictatorship. and the people
are becoming accustomed TO this
land are even happy in their daily
Lives under it. Under the iron hand
of dictatorship the existence of the
masses in Russia Is beginning e
lrun smoothly. While tile correi
tspondent was in Moscow he was
assured by government leaders thai
Jno political freedom would be
THAN really deprecated. Streets
to worry the people. and tired of
war and strife, they now see ample
food before them, coupled with the
possibilities of personal advance
ment.
No Important Uprising.
Throughout soviet Russia there
lis not today, nor has there been
for months, a single important up
rising. The communist control is
Tighter and more complete than
ever. The committee OF investiga-
ton is outweeding, trying, and
convicting various minor officials
who accepted brides, and is thus
Iendeavoring to build up u bureau
cratic machine which win operate
strictly in accordance with orders
from the central government.
! The old Cheka has been abolish
ed, and in its stead there has come
up the organization known as the
political police. The latter does
mot interfere in mems private lives,
but in politics they are as omnipo-
tent as ever. At one time the po-
| litical police could shoot people
first and try them afterward. To-
day the method Is to have a court
trial first and then carry out the
execution, or to send suspects into
exile without trial.
10 foreigners in Russia the lead
ers make no effort to conceal their
policy They are not ashamed,
They have confidence in the poll
icy OF doing wrong that good NAV
ultimately come, and they appar-
emily are succeeding. slowly and
painfully, in reconstructing Russia,
put along their own lines. and
without any important sacrifice of
principle.
49, Streets Being Repaved.
Inc evidence of reconstruction
IN the land is more superficial
are being repaved, build
Streets are being repaved. build
ings reconstructed, and railroad
passenger traffic is becoming nor
MAJ. industrial plants, however,
IL IN no worse condition that a
Iyear ago, certainly are in no better
shape, These plants need foreign
capital, but lacking this on terms
to which the communists can con-
sent, the government is ready to
wait until it has a surplus of ex-
ports from agriculture. This il
hopes Tor in 1928, and then and
thereafter it sees money with
which it will be able to establish
industries itself.
IN the meantime, with evidence
at hand of enough food to feed
practically the entire population.
with q fuel supply exceeding thai
OF last year, and with textile works
producing u considerable amount
or clothing. the government exnects
the population to be fed. warmed
ana cad, not necessarily yery well
out still well enough to weather
ahother year without foreign loans.
70 reed the few hundred thou
| sands or people who still suffer
from the Russian famine, the rov-
| eminent still looks to foreign Gid
ms VIII permit it to devote most
OF the available famine and church
treasure funds to constructive ag-
ricultural betterment and To the
purchase OF harvesting machinery
horses, etc. "
Nikolai Lenine, premier Of Rus
pa, ,housh faf from strong as the
RESULT or his recent illness has
oeen inc guiding mind in these
general policies. " 'i'oSe
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