The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-11

reached them, or, when actually re-
ceiyed, proved to be damaged goods,
short OF measure, and so forth" Con-
sequently the Bolsheviki were COM
PEELED to resort to the Razvyorstka
| forcibie food collection in the VIII
| lages) because Of the refusal Of the
peasants to feed the city"
Punitive expeditions" says Miss
Goldman, Following upon a villages
resistance to the Governments food
collectors and always in charge of
Communists. would attack the place
by force OF arms and often literally
destroy 1t. Unbelievable as it may
seem, 1T Is a fact well known in Rus
sia that the Razvyorstka system was
partly responsible for the present IA
mine. For the peasants were not
only stripped of their last pound Of
flour, often they were robbed of the
seeds they had put by for their next
planting. The drought is of course,
the main cause of the narrowing
conditions in the Volga districts. But
it is nevertheless true that If the peas
ants had been able to plant at the pro-
per time, and freely, at least cartain
areas would have been in a position
to help lessen the famine on the Vol
ga"
Such are the accomplishments of
the dictatorship Of the proletariat"
towards the peasants. Analysing the
Bolshevist policy towards the work.
ers in the cities Miss Goldman con-
firms what was established long ago,
and that is the fact that the social
ed dictatorship OF the proletariat" is
in reality a dictatorship over the pro-
letariat. In describing the mobiliza-
ton Of labor which, was heralded to
the world as the greatest asset OF
Communism, Miss Goldman says that
what it (this Bolsheyist measure) did
accomplish was to establish while it
existed, chattel slavery and to replace
the bourgeois parasite by the machin-
cry Of Bolshevik parasitism. It's func-
ton was to drive the workers to toll,
oversee them on the job and have them
arrested and occasionally even shot
for deserving the job. Under such en-
shaving and degrading conditions one
need not be surprised that the people
shirked the work because they hated
1t and were driven to toll. They began
to look upon the Communist State as
the new leech that was sapping their
life -blood. The workers of Petrograd,
the most revolutionary,-what wonder
IL even they came to loathe the false
revolutionists and everything connect
ed with them"
These few quotations from Miss
Goldnan's series OF ten articles will |
suffice to show that, in spite of the |!
fact that she entered Russia two years |
ago expecting to find there a real |
paradise on earth, she is now cour- |
ageously declaring to the world that |
instead OF the much-heralded gov |
eminent of peasants and workers,
a red autocracy has been established |
In Russia, which governs the masses |
Of the Russian people by cruel and
bloody means far exceeding those
practiced under the Tzar's regime. She |
explains also why the Bolsheviki have
succeeded in keeping some of the cred |
ulous people throughout the world |
thoroughly mialed as to the real
workings of the BoIshevist system.
Being interested in children, Miss
Goldman visited in Petrograd the So
called "Pokazatelnaya Shkola", model
school, literally show school,. She
found that the children were clean.
well kept and comfortable" They
looked healthy, well fed and content |
ed. The MUSICIAN in charge conduct
ed me through the large place, includ- !
ing the kitchen, shining with lovely
copper dishes, and explained every i