The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-03

the truth about the Soviet gov
eminent when they return to
Czecho-S1ovakia:
I'VE have visited your countries to
find out how far the statements of the
international bourgeois press are true
when they declare that Communist
reign of terror exists in Georgia, that
anti-Soviet elements are tortured and
manhandled in the Soviet prisons. We
consider it to be our duty to publish
the results. of our stay in the Trans
Caucasian Soviet Republics and to
declare our attitude to those state
ments of the press.
Have Complete Freedom.
1--WE have had absolute and COM
plete freedom of movement, we have
visited shops and factories, clubs,
schools, villages and workers meet
ings. We have held discussions with
workers, peasants, trade unionists
and government officials; we have dis
cussed for days with the imprisoned
leaders of the anti-Soviet insurrection
which took place in 1924, with social
democrats, national democrats and
social revolutionaries, with one-time
members of the menshevik party who
now are working together with the
Soviet government. Everywhere we
were convinced that the workers and
peasants of Soviet Trans aucasia
have finally won their hard fought
freedom.
Workers and Peasants Rule.
The governments of all those ma
tional republics consist of workers
and peasants of the particular ma
tionality, who at the same time lead
all the political institutions, direct the
factories and control the economic in
situations, co-operatives, etc. Each
worker feels himself as the owner
with his fellow workers of the shop in
which he works and he is therefore
dong his utmost TO raise the level OF
production and thus the level of the
whole economy of his country.
'We have come to the conclusion
that the Georgian people are as in
dependent in every respect as the
other nationalities of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics and that
the national question has been solved
in a way only possible in a socialist
state. There is not the least trace of
any suppression of any national
minority, on the contrary, the Russian
people who are economically, cultur-
ally and numerically stronger than
the national minorities which were
oppressed under the dominance of the
car and which were compelled to
remain backward, assist the cultural
and material development of these
minorities in every way and helps
them to take part as equal workers
in the cause of the socialist construc-
ton of a new world
Denounce Capitalist Papers.
"The reports Of the bourgeois press
about alleged suppressions of national
minorities, about the alleged terror
of small group of Communists over
the overwhelming majority of the
population are malicious ISLANDERS in
tended to prepare the way for an
armed intervention against the Soviet
Union to conquer its natural re-
sources. The Communist Party en-
joys the unlimited confidence of the
masses and carries out the policy
favored by the vast majority of the
people, that is u say. favored by the
workers and peasants.
"The achievements of the Trans
Caucasian Republics in social progress
are such that they could never have
dreamed of them under the bourgeois
and menshevist regime.
Economic Improvement.
ION the economic field we have OBJ
served feverish activity which has