The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-27
By GEORGES POPOFF, International News Service Staff Cor.
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respondent.
 ~luRists succeed in supplying the peasants with goods and thus help them out of uheif straits or they will aVoida ble issue"
 None other than Lenin himself spoke these bold words which with lightning-like lucidity ilIumine the crux of the present Soviet policy. He added:
 'In the fifth year of our rule we Communists have not yet succeeded the population of Russia
 It was the Eleventh Congress of the Russian Communistfc Party on March 2T last that the Russian Pre- mier, addressing 5000 Communists assembled in the Kremlin thus drew the veil from the abyss which con- His words sobered and siIenced the ''opposition.'
 An "Unhealthy Situation.''
 Almost half a year has passed since then Lenin has been very i'll and is reported recovering The Genoa Con- ference was followed by The Hague. The domestic political situation of Russia. however, has not changed as nearly two years we have seen the same latent unhealthy condition; the fate of the Soviet power still hinges solely upon the attitude of the Rus
 
 cent of the total population
 These 110.000,000 souls have un- dergone untold sufferings during the last few years. They have been giv- ing, giving, giving-without receiving anything in return. They have given away that which is dearest to them prived them of their main strength. They sacrificed human material cat tie and foodstuffs-nearly everything they possessed. And they received ia ctrja are lying idle and the Soviet Govern ment has no goods. The Russian peasant has been at the border of de- spair. He came to the point where he could sacrifice mo more wheat, but at the same time his hunger for goods
 Revolts Break Out. Thus it came about that a year ago revolts broke out Rebellion seethed everywhere. It f1ared up in Kron- stadt because the discontent of the peasantry had spread to the army and to the workers. Things could not go on that way. The Soviet Govern ment realized this in the eleventh hour. It found the courage to con- fess unqualtfiedly the fiasco of eco homie communism. It declared the so-cal1ed 'new economic policy The courage of this deed and the avenues toward it's execution were found by none other than Lenin. They were his personal work.
 It was the only way out. Lenin himself has confessed it. The new economic policy, free trade, the open ing of new sources of revenue. the re- moval of the compulsory wheat trade, were to enable the Government:
 1. To demand the minimum of wheat from the peasants and
 ?. To give the peasant bread for his products.
 Adopt New Policy.
 Upon these issues depended the success or failure of the Soviet Gov ernment. A face-about was made. Much improvement resulted How ever new symptoms of disease and decay appeared. Too much had been expected. Russia resembled a coun- try in which pestilence reigned, death stalked through the streets, life and laughter had been silenced; all stores. l cafes and restaurants were closed; anyone who engaged in commerce was sentenced to death-and in such a country, upon sudden command, everything was expected to rise and revive at a moments notice Things did rise and revive. But this new life" resembled the resurrection of Q dead giant who with roughed lips staggers through the streets like a drunkard The new 'Iife' in Russia