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make up our minds to like it. for there win
be no escape. No one will be allowed to leave
the country. The Canadian and Mexican bor-
ders will be closed by ring of bayonets. Only
Government officials, tried and true, travelling
ON business for the state will be able to get
an exit visa. And even then the Government
will choose to send abroad state servants who
have mothers and children remaining at home
who can be seized as hostages and imprisoned
II the official takes overlong in coming back.
When America goes Red, it's good-by vaca.
tions In Bermuda farewell to France and Ha-
waii. The factories and the farms will need
our two hands-and most certainly not need
the hifalutin' ideas about liberty We might ac-
quire from seeing how foreigners. not blessed
with communism, manage to get along.
In Russia foreign passport can be secured
by private citizen by paying $500 gold. Hardly
a man In Russia today has so much Conse-
qnently only Communists with capitalist friends
abroad, who will send in such fortune, have
any hope Of release.
Russian Communists insist that no Soviet
citizen wants to leave Russia. that their So
cialiSed state has created q Utopia, classics
society where all men are brothers, all equal
all happy and secure. But the fact that RUS
sia's frontiers must be walled with machine
zens in their Utopia, and that dozens Of
Utopians are killed each week trying to make
dash for liberty, does not speak too elo-
quently Of their contentment. 4,t. +I,,,,
All this regimentation and control, say the
Communists. is only the harsh means we have
had to employ in order to achieve our idealistc
ends.
Very well. Let's look at the ends, the results
after II years Of communism.
Never in her history has Russia been SO i'm
poverished, so ragged, so hungry. The mobs
Of people In the streets, standing for hours,
wearily and resigned, waiting to buy black
bread or q piece Of meat, are the shabbiest,
most hopeless looking human beings I've ever
seen in any country populated by white races.
Everybody looks as II he had bought his cast-on
clothes at the rummage sale and slept in them
q year. But there are no other kind to be had.
You can spot q foreigner block away, no
matter what his nationality, by the compare
lively good quality and the suficiency Of his
clothes In Czarist days Russia was land Of
litically, were sufficiently fed. Now, under COM
munsIn, no one has enough to eat except those
fed in factory Kitchens
Poverty appears to be the lot Of every citizen,
except the new ruling classes, the commissars
and officials who live in magnificent new
apartments and ride around In expensive auto
mobiles.
The most damning evidence that Russian
communism Is an experiment that does not
work. or at least works very badly, is the
vastly superior social and economic conditions
Of Russias two -provinces-Finland and Po-
land have made q visit to both Of them,
and these visits proved fatal to whatever regard
I stiii had for the political and economic poll
cies Of the Bolsheviks.
TO CROSS from Russia to Finland Is like
] leaplng from the Bowery to Park avenue.
In Leningrad I saw rags and CRIME, endless
queues, detection, universal poverty. Helsing-