The Washington times., 1923-03-11

CoInmunistic system in Moscow
while 1 waited, = prisoner, trying
to escape. Nothing in Russia may
be sold any more. The State has
seized all the supplies. Accord
ingly witnessed distressing sights,
when whole granaries Of wheat
were thrown away because 1t had
moulded in the public storehouses
beyond possibility Of being eaten.
It was nobody's grain--therefOre
nobody took care to keep it fit to
feed the starving people.
The Communistic dining rooms,
again, were travesties of state-rin
projects. ! dined there in my ter
rible days in Moscow. Only one
meal day was ever served, and,
as we sat, If our hand lost its Wig
lance for a minute other Wretches,
waiting fanished and denied
places, behind our chairs, would
steal our bread or snatch away our
soup. Everywhere in those dining
rooms were terrific fights over the
wretchad food. Men have killed
each Other there for plate Of
rancid soup.
Even the food provided, III
smelling, spoiled and poorly cooked,
as It was, they never served regu-
larly. In the crowd with the blue
Tipped. trembling canaille Of Mos
COW have waited for two Or three
hours for those awful dining rooms
81 the free and glorious new Com
rnunistic state to open, only to be
rewarded BY the sign, No dinner
to-day no wood n Or else, at
other times, No dinner to-day
servants need q rest n
The theory Of Communism may
sound plausible to those Of feeble
brain who have never tried It out.
But have lived through the
wretched application Of the theory,
and / know it Is all wrong. When
saw the wooden house dragged
daily through Moscow on wheels,
wherein were the naked bodies OF
hundreds Of adult famine victims,
on its way to the burial pit out
side, 1 shook my head. But when
/ saw the same house one day
filled with the stiffiy frozen bodies
Of little naked children, their small
faces twisted in the agony Of star
vationthen / cursed Communism
and the Soviets. What kind Of 2
country is it-what kind of gov
eminent that does not protect its
innocente2
In the meantime my book de-
layed in the writing. They sent TO
me d comnissar to speed up my
endeayors by taking me on visit
Of inspection through Moscow. !
was shown through the chambers
called take and Be Scared" In
these dungeons of the prison OF
Peter and Paul were mice and rats
and snakes, all ready to spring out
1T YOU. The noise these ver1nin
made as they clambered over You
was uncanny. Few victims Of the
Bolshevista ever came out Of these
chambers game.
1--WE can kill the enemy Of the
new free state by drawing out the
air, or by letting In the water, Or
by raising the temperature 10 melt
inR point OF lead In these dun.
geons,o the escort told me. Of
course, understood that this was
to terrorize me into writing that
book for the government. | beg
.ged ID be allowed % 90 70 TAarit-
zin.
There, in my own way" said
/, 81 will try to reorganize the
church. They had made me Pa
triarch, and had asked me to start
bloody revolution in the church.
They let me go to bring my fam
lily to Moscow. There followed
terrific fights at my church, in
which many were slain. Then
came orders to bring Patriarch
Iliodor back to Moscow. / knew
that the trouble in the church had
been started by the authorities,
who opposed all the old religious
forms in every way.
So. again empty handed, / ran
away from Tsaritzin before
could be captured. Barefooted,
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