The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-03

erty is communized; social insti- tutionS are uprooted; the "dicta- tcrship of the proletariat' is es- tablished; Communism is born.
 If Marx is the god of the Con-, munists, Lenin is the prophet of Communism. It was he who de- veloped the teachings of Marx and Siezed control of Russia to attempt to put them in practice. Lenin be- came the first dictator and at his death in 1924. was succeeded by the present dictator, Stalin.
 In an encyclical devoted to Con- munism, our late Holy Father, de- scribing it as a satanic scourge," speaking of it's seductive trap- pings" referring to the violent hate and destruction which it causes" calling it propaganda truly diabolicaP and its actions fearful destruction carried out with a hatred and savage bar parity one would not have thought possible in our age"-using the strongest language he could com mand, the Holy Father has con- demned Communism as the great est evil that the world has ever experienced. He says: We see to- day what was never before seen in history, the satanical banners of war against God and religion brazenly unfurled to the winds" The Holy Father says that the conflict between good and evil has existed in the world since the time of Adam breaking out now and again into open combat. But this modern conflict exceeds anything that the world has ever experi- enced and threatens to destroy the results of twenty centuries ot civil iZation.
 Political Theory
 AS political party Commun- ism is, in theory, classless go- ciety ruled by the people. In Russia as political party two million Communists members of the party have made slaves through propaganda and terror of 160 million people. The two mill lion hold all the important po- Sitions of the State, dictate the policies-but they have made the Russian people the poorest, the most miserable people in the world.
 In Russia the economic theory is failure. In Russia today there is no Communism. In the days of Lenin it was tried on nation- wide scale. But in spite of the nat ural resources of the country Rus sia suffered and starved and now the bread cards have gone. One has only to recall the many news accounts to realize that the ma chimes of Russian industry are oiled with blood, that It's vast plains are planted with the bones of starved peasants, that mines are worked by chained prisoners exiled to all living death, that the gigantic projects are possible only at terrific toll of lives. The State may be getting rich if we can judge by her exports-but the |' Russian people are working as they never worked before, and dying as they never died before. In 1932-1933 Dictator Stalin con- f1scated the harvest of the Ukraine peasants, the food that would keep them alive through the winter. The grain was needed for ma chimes and armamentS. Three mill lion people starved to death. For eign newspaper correspondents were not allowed in the territory; foreign aid was refused The Soviet government wilfuliy and brutaily allowed three million peo- | pie to starve. Not in some brutal age of developing civilization-but six years ago..
 Liquidation
 Eugene Lyons, a United Press correspondent in Russia for several years, a year ago published his story of Russia. It is called As signment in Utopia" He says in beginning: If anyone -ver went to Russia with determination to dig down to the hard, enduring core of great event in history, 1t was |. :. The farewell party given by my friends in New York included tke cream of New York Communists. They were seadin,s me off as one of their own to spread the gospel. And then he tells of his disillusionment: T saw