The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-18

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 celebrities and fourteen additional Communist big shots. Tho two celebrities are Gregory 2lnoviev and Leon Kameneif, The others are almost unknown outside Of the U.s.s.R. Liquidation" s the hlgh.falutln term the BolsheviSts apply to what Is known as "buInp. Ing of" In American gangland. Your Communist Is in addition Co his other pecullarltles, given to word worship and nothing 90 bourgeois . term Rs executed" B considered good form in the best Red circles. Enemies Of the State, real or fancled, "counter-revolus tlonarlos", and Rll other political undesirables are not shot to death in the land of the Sovlets, They arc "llquldated" which makes no difference whatever to the victims who arc 30 dead when the "llqui" dalton" ls finished that there S not enough left of their remains to mop up. In Germany the NaElB call the same thing . "blood purgc". But however, it iS described the effect on these who experience 1t is identical, Tho subsequent proceedings, in the words of Bret Hart, interest them no more.
 The Works!
 Up to the present whenever Q Liquidation" took place it result. cd from c bad attack Of jltterS among the ruling Communist bosses in Moscow duo to the sum. mary taking of of some govern- mental official by way of tho bomb, tho knife, or tho pistol. When VoIkoif, tho Dolshevist am: bassador to Poland was knocked of in the railway station at War; saw in 1927 CD, there was . wholesale slaughter of political prisoners, some of whom had been jailed for ton years, from one end of the country to tho other, sus- poets, which included everyone and anyone young or old who had the slightest connection with the CZarist regime, were arrested by tho thousands and imprisoned without trial for indefinite terms. Tn 1884 Q Communist leader, Kir. of, was permanently removed from the Lcningrad scene by Q foe, in or outside the Party fold, and there was another "llquida- ton" Both zlnovlev and Ram" eneR wore picked Up by the Haul. dating squad for being implicated in the KiroR knock.oR but Do. cause of their services to tho Reds in tho past were let or with Q ten.ycar stretch, Their alleged co.conspirators however were "n' uuldated" to Q fare.thee.well. Now because of the discovery of . plot, real or fancied, to "liquidate" Comrade stalln, who runs tho whole Soviet show, and to over- throw the relgnlng clique, 1t looks RS # Gregory, Leon, and their as" Bociates arc going to get the works.
 Retrospect
 Almost to the day nine years ago the writer Of these lines sat in Q sunny room in Moscow with two companion members Of the first American trade union dele. gation to investigate conditions In Soviet Russia, discussing the pos" sibility, probability, and inevitabil. ity of world revolution with CoIn- rade (Qershon) Zinoviev. It was q beautiful afternoon; the room was ct least cndurable in'its fa- natIc baroness, and we had tea and little cakes served by Q SItiil- ing old lady who listened atten. lively and approvingly while Zinc. vicv expounded his political thesis that 1t is impossible for 8 Social" ist state to exist ringed about by capitalist countries and that the only way to insure its continued existence is to put the entire capl" taiist world out of business. Ho was c mlld-mannered, soft spoken little Jew with thick reddish hair and worried eyes. He had excel- lent cause to worry. He had been denoted from his all powerful offlna aa first President of the Third International because Of Q letter he was charged with writ- ing to English Communists advo" eating unrestrained violence dur