Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-07-21
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.7OCANNIBALlSA,
INDESPERATION
st,er Struggled Out OF soVle'
Domain Reveals Plight Ot
People

sun sum received in this city by a trlehd
le'tsl Trodmov, Russian resident
Sl Saro - The friend, fearing the Reds
refuses to allow his name to De naue
public, mi, &C. 70 challenge
holiof are in the letter-storles Oh
'atbors DvltEl killing, cooking and eating
tboir children; of dead bodies rottlng
IN t5c streets; of hopeless, despair
. The letter, smuggled past the strict
mail censorship in possession OF a
mmmaI friend leaving Russia, brands
life in the soviet nation as "a ter
rible nightmare, daily growing
worse"
aves The horrible pictures the let
fer oaints are true" says Trofmov,
wbo fled from Russia under forged
norsports in 1918. He had served IN
the Russian navy under the czar,
Yerensky, and for a short time, un-
Ter Lenin, and was a submarine
commander in active service during
the war.
a. myself saw the beginnings
which inevitably led to this. But
there will be reaction, probably re-
sulting in the return of monarchy.
Lenin Conservative.
"Lenin, the one sincere man of the
Bolsheviki, is conservative in his
radicalism. If he dies, as the papers
say is likely, men more radical will
get control and the peasantry will
rise against them. Then, probably
monarchy, for the people of Russia
I do not know of a good republic such
as America. All they know is
sovietisiT and monarchy, and be-
tween the two they will choose mon
lrchy.
"What else will they do when there
is no food, no hope of food and
scarcely a house in Russia fit to live
in? The wooden buildings are torn
down for frewood, the brick build
ings are tumbling down. Unrepaired
roofs admit the water, which
freezes between the bricks of the
walls and causes them to become dis
lodged. People lie like animals in
the Easements. All this because The
houses have no owners and who
res if they tumble?
"Cannibalism? Yes, l believe 1t,
for when | left Russia everyone was
consuming and no one producing or
planting. This would bring the ter
flole desperation Of hunger which
We'll might lead to cannibalism."
Text of Letter
The letter follows:
Limperopol, March 25. 1922.
Dear Brother:
! nave a chance to send you this
abroad. "l'0 e'e'
- ! w wish ;i. to give briefly the picture
u yne life in soviet Russia.
Hunger, indigence and disease
TL 1lLI hundreds Of people every day.
Inc ine people die like flies and dead
days, and rot '2 i0i 'oNeral
ro,i; Inc most hunger is in the volga
Ess,On ba5a and Crimea. Inhabitants
nave bsye eaten up all the cats, docs
boi;s.s i,oisys and nd. have entered into canni,
Jrar Jrl,sil, Often mothers kill their chill
aren, cook and ear them MN '''''i olii-
Inere is no hope for baI, ord +h;
wbn ,,Snss -. our life worse every dav. All
~ ~ you 70 are able to do sometime fo,.
cans, c9 : Know that You will do It, be-
ham,. we 90 not know what viii
rpPgn WIPE TO US month to month W.
tbo o0Iu o all with great pleasure leave
di'oa y country of "communjstic na,a
and 20 abroad p"i
school, o.' 6lt 5ust ! Graduated from the high
tend 1n;.. Gu' am not allowed to at
ser,,;. eru university because of NV ~ nost a'
helpirs. s WIN the Whites. Now am
can n I'm my Father and we boro cam az,
several plg na,,.5 earn enough money for
Id pounds u Of black bread.
1 W Gets Worse Ds;Iv
pare an me life is a terrible NIGHT.
m s,s ana el Is daily getting worse q 60
Fsny pIs.a s aId-but there is none Iar nor
The s.G5e sai5e from which to obtain iIi !,
sown a5 and IN Russia have not been
out ''a next year Russia will ggn dia
Price @|a u advise q US how to leave. -"
rubles g1a9d ,5ael Of back bread. 15o. .ooo
The eaBi,si' iiostore the war a rublo IO'vOo WV
One n money! '' -
One poand Do,,., of meat, 100000 rnb,o.
big Oi sugar, 25O,OoO ru.
u. Pound Of butter, 100000 rs.
4llftV-Si,