The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-28
"RUBLE IS FAMOUS
BECAUSE THERE ARE
SO MANY OF THEM
One Must BE Respectful When One Thinks in
Quadrillions, "An Astronomical Figure"
Says Lenin Aims of Communism Have Not
Been Forgotten, But Peasants Must Be Con-
Sidcred and Growth of Industries FOStercd.

the land, which Is the property
Of our state. This ID very i'm
portant, no matter what our Op-
ponents say. II has the greatest
practical meaning, even Tor agri-
culture. We have made the peas
ants contented, We have begun to
revive industry and trade.
MIXED COMPANIES.
AS far as trade is concerned. I
want to emphasize that We pro-
pose to found mixed companies,
that Is. where part Of the capital
win be foreign private capital
ana the other part win ceme
} from Us.
First Of all, we shall II this
way learn how to trade and We
need such training.
In the second place, we shGll
be able, IL it proves desirable, to
dissolve such companies. So We
really run no risk.
Undoubtedly, we have commit
tedSmany follies and We are going
to commit more. No one 10 IN
better position to judge Of this
and to see ii effectively, than
am.
Why have we made those fool
ish mistaken This is clear.
First: Because we are q back
ward country.
Second: We have but q mini
mum Of education.
Third: we receive no help; no
civilized state comes to our assist
ance: they all work against ms.
Fourth: There ID the Outstand-
ing question Of government ma
chfnery. we took the old state
machinery over from those whom
we succeeded
SABOTAGED.
IN 1917. when We. came to
power, the old functionarfes
sabotased. We shouted to them:
Please come back" And they
came hack, ali of them. This
necessarily was our misfortune.
Oftentimes, while all is running
smoothly at the top Of the gov
eminent, because there we are In
power, our underlings run things
arbitrarily at cross-purposes, and
manage to defeat our objects
We cannot remedy this IN q
moment. We shall have to work
for years to perfect our govern
nent machinery. AS 1t is, we are
going ahead at great speed-at
too great a speed, perhaps If
we do not act too hastily, we
shall have a force Of young off,
Gals in few years who win be
able radically to reform our gov
eminent machinery.
When our opponents reproach
US by saying that Lenin himself
confesses to an enormous amount
Of foolish mistakes, / want to tell
them this: you know, just the
same, that our foo1ishness il alto
gether different from yours"
We have just begun to learn,
and we are learning in such
systematic way that we are sure
to obtain results. However, in
answer to our opponents, the cap
italists, who reproach US for our
foolish missteps, I shall cite an
} example from a famous Russian
writer. shall change this en-
ample somewhat so that it reads
as follows: When a Bolshevik
makes a mistake, he says Two
times two makes five; but when a
capitalist makes q mistake, he
says: Two times two makes q
stearin candle.
This is not difficult to prove.
CAPITALIST ERROR.
- Take. for instance. the agree
ment =. between Kolchak and
America, France, England and,
Japan. Are there stronger and
;. more civilized states in the world
They promised to help Kolchak.
and made fiasco of it that find
1T humanity impossible to under
stand.
Now. for. the second example
the treaty Of Versailles. what
did those highly enlightened pow
f, ers concoct at Versailles?
=. How are they now to find their
way out Of that mix up, that non
sense?
do not think it is an exaggera-
ton if 1 assert that our follies
are as nothing compared to those
of which the capitalist world Is
guilty.
.. I believe the most important
thing for US all, Russians as we'll
as outsiders, is the fact that NOW.
d, we are, finally in a position -
learn.
do not know how long the
capitalist powers will leave 10 in
peace so that we may learn. But