The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-09
By EUGENE. LYONS
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright. 1888, by United Press

Copyright. 1888, by United Press
MOSCOW, Feb. 9.-(UP)--A
regime of political pressure s."
harsh that the methods of these
last arduous years will seem mild
hv contrast confrontS the Soviet
population rs the vague second
iive-year plan gets under way.
UneQuivOcal no ice to this eff
feet has been given in the series
of speeches and resolutions issu-
ing from the recent plenary Se3-
sion of the central committee OF
the Communist party, and eSpe-
cially in the grim pronounccmenis
of Joseph Stain.
Policing measures already re-
vealed give a fore aste of the TO-
lentlesS system which will be OK.
tended and fortified in the near.
est months. with hardships untold
for the whole nation and undis-
euised prosecution for millions III
so-called "alien class elements"
Chief of these innovations are
a passport or Identification decree
under which several millions will
be driven on: of the larger cities
into the lumber, cotton, coal, steel
and grain regions; and the estab-
lishment of some 1000 political
sections" in the agrarian regions
to supervise farming, with i'm
mense punitive powers in their
hands.
In any other country the period
which now unfolds would have
been denomina:ed one of mar
tial law" or Revolutionary ter
ror," since it is marked by ex-
tremes Of police surveillance, un-
sparing use Of the capital penalty,
mass arrests and exiles and SINH
lar official pressures.
In Russia, acclimatiZed to such
things during Is years Of iron
dictatorship, it will pass under the
label of "sharpened revolutionary
vigilance. The use Of the word
vigilance, of course, will be un
derstood to by those familiar with
"vigilantes" activities in the raw
American west. ... .
Other immediate manifestations
of the new regime Of revolution
airy vigilance first appeared in the
latter part of last year, but they
will find their most relentless APP
plication this year.
&. Foremost among these is. tho
merciless "chistka" or cleansing
Of. the ranks of the ruling Com
munist party now gathering I'M
petus everywhere in the land
which will drive, it is estimated,
fully a million Communists into
the outer darkness Of political en-
communication. 10 be an eX-
Communist is a cruel fate, sur
rounded by permanent suspicion
and discrimination. Some of the
expelled Communists, moreover,
will find themselves subjected to
administrative punishments, as
has already happened in northern
Caucasus. =.
A cleansing has also been ind
Gated, particularly in the speech
of Premier Molotov,. for all So
Wet enterprises and institutions,
to drive out former people. It,
seems clear from the whole. con-
lecture of affairs that this mass
hunt against remnants of the dy-
ing classes" will make all previous
such undertakings pale into insig-
r:,..' :. be-. 49,.
The list of stringent campaigns,
ruthlessly applied by a dictato or
ship fanatically convinced that
only force counts, could be multi
Piled. But. those already az
are only part of the
story. More terrifying for tho
average Russian is the fear of the
unknown-the implication in all
the speeches Of leaders that coer-
cion of every type will be used to |
crush opposition. discomfort and
popular apathy. r.
Under the layers of figures,
slogans and sophistry, Russia's
160,000,000 discern the surly Wis
age of war-struggle against eco
nomic difficulties, determination,
of Kulaks and former people, |
class war, but war as bloody and