The Denver Jewish news., 1924-02-07

cnll that IT was only sixty years ago
TINT the Russian peasant was freed
from serfdoG. And that only ten years
ago state of serfdom was still in eX-
istcnce in the Caucasus; that only. six
,y or seventy years ago Jewish boys
Of eight or ten years of age would be
caught on the streets, snatched from
their mothers hands, coverted forcibly
TO Christianity and sent into the army
for their entire lifetime
Bolshevism is II species OF Russian
natural force for the Russian children
of nature.
The Car of all the Russias deprived
ilic Russians of all their personal lib
cr,ies-for their own welfare and hap
piness The Peoples Dictator of all the
Russians has equally deprived the peo-
pie of I'LL their personal freedom for
the very same reason. Hard and brutal
acts of force. and the same bloody
deeds. One followed the path of the in
terests of the dynasty, while the other
followed in the path of revenge, and
even bearing the slogan Of the nations
happiness on its lips. Even as the Holy
Inluisition and its near relative. the
Holy Orthodox faith. did it in their
way For everything is permissible if
it is being done for the peoples own
welfare This ever was and has 50 re-
mained the only ethical or social rear
ing of this people.
The real Russian problem is begin
ming to develop just now. Lenin has
torn asunder the shell and laid bare
the kernel within. But yet. he really
did not more than touch this kernel
the hundred million of Russian peas
ants remain practically unaffected by
| his work. The road lies open before
| them their day is dawning even now.
| There were hardly any experiments
made upon them :: the land belongs to
them and they consequently have all
| the power The process of their growth
and development. their division into
several classcs and groups is now TO
stinacy did not entirely suffice to bring
changes in their makeup. And it may
he that 1t was on account OF them.
though quite unintendcd'and even en-
tirely unconscious of the fact, that
Lcnin had sacrificed his life.
1t is not mere coincidence that the
stormng of the BolShcvik fortress was
simultaneously attempted on several
sides. ON the east there WAS Admiral
Kochak; to the south there WIS Deni-
kin and Wrangel, while in the west
there was General Nudenicli. AT the
gates of Oral. i'll the neghborhood of
Moscow. there was General MuycrSky.
and in the old residential town of the
Cars. GotchirIa. but u half hours jour
ney from Petrograd. General Iuden-
itch was Soiidly impregnatcd. The
: Powers had bountifully supplied all
these nnti-BolShcvik armies with mon
cy and ammunition. Yet they all fell
against the stubborn and the united
resistance of the Russian peasantry.
And yet this very peasantry had suf-
: fcred much at the hands of these Bol
sheviSts and, hence. would not permit
It's force to approach it too closely or
got too much in its way.
The Russian peasantry, n veritablf
sea of grey, hair-overgrOwn and ragged
people. bear AN ominous little flame il
their eyes. Ii may bc. as Maxim Cork
: says: people with tender con
science" hut certainly with II firm de
termination To live IL free and indcpen
dent life
When these one hundred million oi
Russian peasants will attain to Tho
full estate Of manhood. communism
may no longer he the question Of tho
day, but rather the struggle between
The town and the village. I,ut the roat
over which they must travel in III.
course of their ultimate development
has been opened by Lcnin and his I;ol
; shcvism. In this may after all he foun,
the key to his life and his achieve
mcnt.
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