Evening star., 1928-03-26
FLOOD OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA
DIRECTED AT RUSSIAN CHILDREN
Dresser Finds Walls of Day Nurseries
Covered With Red Flags-Pupils
Given "Sound" Ideas.

munc." for instance. or communist
or 'individualist," or capitalist" or
king" or "idler," or worker or
parasite" and how these things or
persons are directly connected with the
Russian state and Its problems.
Reading Lessons.
And there is the reading lesson, best
read from q Communist paper the
Pravda. say with all that that i'm
plies. Or the geography lesson with
the maps of other countries and the
data concerning the same, the forms
of their governments and the lives of
their people. and the difficulties the
same have had with kings and queens.
capitalists and idlcrs who oppressed
and enslaved them.
AS early as and 8 years old,
SO l was told, they begin to listen
TO talks on current events and some
facts in connection with RuSSia's re-
cent history and by the time they are
In the fourth and fifth grades there
are regular periods devoted to events In
other countries, England, France,
China, America. and social conditions
which give rise TO those events
And there are. of course, patriotic
Communist songs and very early pa
triotic Communist school societies. Each
class has its collective" in which the
children are trained by actual example
III the processes of Soviet government
And in addition each school has its
OctobriSt, Pioneer and ConSomal or
ganizationS, and they are for kindergar-
ten. grade school and high school age.
Oh, those little schools, in little cabins
in the villages, tucked away In the
snow and under the bleak. gray sky of
Russia. l can see them, with so many
lackdawS in the trees outside. And the
little Russian boys and girls with their
straps Of books coming and going
morning and evening In a way. to-
day they are really sub branches of
the Communist party, with the chill
dren graduating from one sub-Com-
muniSt organization to another until at
last. if they can prove themselves
worthy OF 1t, they are taken into the
party itself
The red" data on the walls of the
schools. The red" pictures copied in
the drawing or art classes, Lenin, Marx,
Engels. Stain. and in the old days.
Trotzky. The soldiers. The uniforms.
The battle scenes with workers defend
ing something.
Red" Notices Everywhere.
And all the red" notices about-"On
the service Of all depends the prosperity
of all, In the hands OF the Studious
child Of today is the control of the
Soviet state OF tomorrow" "On the sue
cess of communism depends the liberia
ton of the world" Down with capi-
talism Long live the revolutioni"
Some Of our comrades are old.
Some Of our comrades are tired,
Wen take their places
Wen fight well work
Octobrists by them inspired
We work undaunted, we Pioneers
To take their places in grim new years"
And what they teach them Is lust
what the newspapers and the unions
and the Communistic party, as a die
tator organization. in thousand other
ways are seeking to teach their elders
that is, that collectivism is right in
dividualism wrong: that holding OF or
wishing for private property is an evil
and the curse of the remainder of the
world that 1t is not right TO want any
thing: that all cannot have: that upon
the worker more than the intellectual
rests the burden Of maintaining the
world
That TO work together one for all
and all for one is the way to collective
or state happiness; that to want special
things for yourself-even rare or diff
ferent articles of adornment-is wrong.
And that mass wants for likeness
rather than difference) is the better
thing That the machine is the work
ers' as we'll as Russia's friend. That
the shorter hour for work and the
longer hour for recreation or study is
the great good for all.
II Is serious and somewhat coloriess
philosophy, and one OF the heavier
aspects Of Russia is this burden OF
economic and social thinking so early
thrown upon the mind OF the child
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