Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-25
Out of the Night

ception of the most important
step on the road 10 a classics
Society-the seizure of power
through revolution. and the
establishment of the dictator
ship of the proletariat under
the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party.
Every thought. every cam
paign, every action whatsoever
had value only if il constituted
a forward step 10 the seizure
of power. Every omission,
every scruple and laxity that
could tend TO retard the adj
vance was an objectionable
crime. Revolution was not
one way Quit was the only
way out.
There was a special military
department where Red army
officers lectured on the STRAIT
egy of street fighting and the
science of civil war. There
was a special section for the
study of African problems and
languages, and another one
reserved for a strictly segre-
gated and tight-lipped elite
where GPG- officers were the
instructors.
Photography, fingerprinting
and police work were taught
hire. And known 10 all were
the classes in which large
mum bers OF Russian girls
worked tirelessly TO acquire
fluency in the Languages of
the West. These girls were
political workers. They were
the "Aktiviski"-a title OF
which they were very proud.
OTHER NATIoNALITIES
The international univer-
sites of the Comintern are in
reality schools established anG
maintained by the Russian
Communist Party which is
identical with the Soviet gov
eminent.
The Comintern being In
effect no more than the for
eign division of the Russian
Party, we S u d en- S often
jokingly referred to the Comm
tern as the Moskauer Frem-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Foreign
Legion.
Yet very few of our in
Structors were Russian. The
majority of the members of
our faculty were Germans,
Let's, Poles. Firms and Hun
garians. Most prom nen I
among them was Otto Will
helm Kuusinen, a leader of the
Finnish Soviet revolution of
1918. one of the founders of
the Comintern, who had been
a trust collaboration of
Lenin.
Today Kuusinen still re-
mains a loyal servant of the
Kremlin, and recently figured
in the world news as the head
of the Finnish puppet govern
ment set up by Stain during
ne Russian invasion of Fin
land.
OF my other instructors, the
the Hungarians. the sedate
and scholarly Pap and the
good natured though volcanic
GoegoeS, came to grief some
years later in Budapest, where
they had been sent to stage a
Communist coup. Both were
betrayed to the authorities by
their own party chief, Rakoshi.
Driven TO insanity by the
police, Pap hanged himself in
the prison of Zegedin in 1880.
Goegoes died in the grip OF
mis- torturers.
Another lecturer, the
Tented German, Arthur
Ewert. who was popular be-
cause of his robust warmth
and rollicking humor, rots 10
this day in a Brazilian prison.
MOST HORRIBLE END
Most horrible was the end
Of Rosa Speculant. a puri-
tanical Jewess, who lectured
on propaganda. She was sub
sequently sent by the Comm
tern to Poland, and was seized
there by the political police.
Nothing was heard of her
until an escaped fellow
prisoner arrived in Berlin with
this report;
police Inspector Tkaczuk
came to Luck prison to ques-
ton COmrade Speculant. To
make her confess, he had the
soles OF her feet beaten with
canes. Water and petroleum
were poured into her nostrils.
Because she still refused TO
confess she was attacked by
prison guards. They trans
ferred her to the venereal
ward Of the prison hospital"
Since then children's home
on the Black Sea near Novo-
roSsisk had been named after
Rosa Speculant.
High functionaries Of the
Comintern occasionally lee
tured at the university. These
lectures were gala events.
They had the character Of
Bolshevik mass meetings, and
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