The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17
Communism In Soviet Union Sure Says Stain
4 4 ~lR0nts To Oil Production AS Lesson

these propositions were contained in
Rakovsky's well-known interview.
They are conditional upon simultan-
eous receiving of credits for the U.
S. S. r.
"This merely means that while we
maintain the validity of the we'll
known decree about the abolition of
the tasarist debts, we are at the same
time willing by way of a practical
agreement to make some payment en-
the pre-war debts, provided that in
return we receive credits which we
to French industry. The October Re-
volution is fundamental negaticn
of the imperialist war, and the tsarist
debts are connected Herewith.
Moreover, the u. S. S. R. cannot
strike off from accounts those rob-
berries and acts Of violence which our
country suffered during the several
years of intervention by foreign
states and wherewith are connected
certain counter-claims Of the U. S.
S. R. The imperialist rulers are apt
to forget these disagreeable things,
but they should know such things can
not be forgotten"
Vodka Monopoly.
To the question of vodka monopoly
and anti-alcohol campaign, Stain re-
piled:
when we introduced the vodka
monopoly we were faced with the al
tentative either to surrender to CAPT.
talists the whole series Of the most
important works and mills and re-
ceiving i'll return a certain amount of
means necessary for tiding over, or
| to introduce the vodka monopoly in
order to receive the necessary float
ing capital for the development of in
dustry with our own forces.
"The members of the Central Com
mittee, including myself, then had
conversation with Lenin who recog-
nized that unless we receive the nee
essary loans from abroad we should
have to admit openly and directly a
vodka monopoly as a provisional ex-
traordinary measure.
''This monopoly actually yields 500
million roubles income. Actually, to
give up vodka would mean to give up
this income while at the same time
allowing no reason to affirm that al
coholism would decrease because the
| peasants would proceed to produce
their own vodka and poison them
selves with homemade spirits.
Nothing to Gain.
eff the vodka business were to be
handed over to private hands, this
would first result in Strengthening
private capital and would further re-
suit in the government foregoing the
possibility of duly regulating the pro-
duction and consumption Of vodka. In
addition the government would make
it difficult for itself in the near fu-
ture to abolish the production and
consumption of vodka Actually our
policy consists in the gradual reduc-
ton of production of vodka. / believe
that in the nearest future we will be
in a position entirely to abolish the
vodka monopoly and reduce the pros
duction Of the spirit to a minimum
necessary for technical purposes. and
then altogether cease selling vodka.
''I believe we possibly might not
have had anything to do either with
vodka or many other disagreeable
things if the Western European pro-
letarians had taken power into their
hands and rendered us necessary
help"
Regarding Ogpu.
! Regarding the question of the state
political department of the U. S. S.
lR.. (Ogpu) Stain declared that many
people reach the utmost leniency and
advise the abolition of this depart
ment. However, who can guarantee
that after the abolition of the state
political department the capitalists of
all countries will refrain from the or
ganization and financing of counter
revolutionary groups of plotters and
terrnrists and bomb-throwers
"To disarm the revolution with no
guarantee that the enemies of the
revolution will be disarmed-would
that not be stupid? Would it not be
crime against the working class?
We do not wish to repeat the mis-
pakes Of the Paris Communards. The
Paris Communards were too lenient
towards Versailles, wherefore Marx
was quite right to blame them. For
their leniency they paid with the lives
Of tens Of thousands Of workers, shot
by the Versaillese when they entered
Paris.
Lessons of Commune.
perhaps the comrades that the
Ruggian bourgeois landowners are
less blood-thirsty than Versaillese
!, France. At any rate we know how
they dealt with the workers when
they occupied Siberia, Ukraine, North