The Washington times., 1935-01-02
SOVIET YOUTHS
LEARNING HOW
SPEND

EDITORS Note-RusSiG today be-
Eon0s to the youth. 1Orites H. r.
Knickerbocker, noted Intern1-
tio7lGI Ne1Ds SerUice foreign cor
respondent, IN the second article
OF his concluding chapters on
Dictatorship Versus Democracy"
And the youth and their relatively
fen SurUtpino parents hve under
the SeDereSt dictatorship that
modern history has kno'On. he
adds.
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
) (COpyright, 1885. by International News
Service. Reproduction in Whole or
Part FOrbidden)
MOSCOW, Jan. 2 Q.N.S0.-
thousand reverent listeners stood
in the concert hall Of the largest
Moscow movie theater, "Udarnik." I"
The orchestra leader lifted his
baton, The Russian audience
tensed its nerves, and their ..ev-
erence became awe-Struck as the
music crashed.
Making Whoopee" was the
tune.
Red Russia has made two rev.
Clutions. Today she is making
Whoopee. To Soviet Russians
whoopee means a hot meal with
meat once a day, a warm coat,
and the chance to listen to ''The
Wedding Of the Painted Doll" To
an American their whoopee seems
one grade above destitution, but
it Is hotcha to the inhabitants Of
&1ae land Of the five-year plan.
Greatest Of Suffering
The music Of their jazz bands
Is five years old. Their dancing
Is groteSque.
Their meat is tough. Their
clothes are poor.
The second red revolution at
tracted little attention compared
to the first. There were no 10
days that shook the world"
There were five years that
bored the world. But those years
of the five-year plan from 1928 to
1888 were more important than
the 10 days Of october, 1917.
Millions Of victims lay in the
Russian earth when the first Red
revolution to seize power came
to an end in 1881. Millions more
had Joined the dead when the
second Red revolution to destroy
the last vestigeS Of private cap
ataliSn and Socialized Russia
neared it's end last year.
How do the survivors live TO-
day? And who are they?
The first revolution Of 1917
destroyed the czar and his family,
extirpated the nobility and the
gentry, decimated the professional
classes, subjugated the middle
classes, and left all power in the
hands of the Bolsheviks, leaders
OF the proletariat.
Millions Pass On
They beat off foreign inter
vention- a civil war with
the whites and won it at a fright
full cost. They had a famine in
1921 that took millions Of lives,
and outlived it. In 1922 they
took out time to rest and for six
years allowed little private en-
terpr1se to help them recuperate
and consolidate their gains.
The second revolution which
began in october, 1928, with the
Inauguration Of the first five
year plan, followed a course curl
ously like that Of the first revolu-
Eion.
They beat off the japanese
threat of foreign war, had a civil
war with the peasants and won
it at frightful cost. They had
o famine in 1928 that took
millions Of lives and outlived it.
In 1888 they took out a year to
take stock.
No nation since Germany In the
Thirty Years War has gone
through such period of strain as
Russia in the last seventeen years.
But her population increased by
Is million during those seventeen
years. Russia today belongs to
the youth.
Today the youth and their rela-
lively few surviving parents live as
Russians have lived for the last
seventeen years, under the sever
est dictatorship that modern
history has known.
Second Largest
Territorially the Bolsheviks in
herited the second largest empire
that ever existed. The Soviet
Union with its 100000 inhabit-
ants on 100000 square miles,
stands next only to the British
Empire with its 485 ,O00, 900 whites,
blacks and yellows on $4,000, 900
square miles.
Russians do not want more land
now. They want the fruits Of the
land they already possess. Their
bosses, the Bolsheviks, believe they
have found a way to get more
fruits than the capitalist world.
They call this way, the Soviet
way. Socialism" and say it is
the path to that ultimate, far.off
goal Communism" when each
will receive according to his needs,
and each will work according to
his abilities, and all will be rich
and happy.
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