Evening star., 1946-12-04

statements that ''the tragic import" is that the
Individual peasants, after they have delivered the
grain, "wil not keep sufficient to guarantee their
existence until the coming winter
There is the answer.
That is the reason why five million to ten
million Russian farmers die of starvation each
year.
They die so that Communism and the Com
munists may be supported, SO that the Red Army
may be maintained, so that the tyranny of the
proletariat- rule Of the least capable, the
least successful and apparently the least humani-
tartan element of the community be con-
tinued. |,
And who is expected to maintain the iron des- !
potism of the proletariat? t
Who is expected to continue the murderous
oppression by the Blood Red Army?
Who is expected to see to it that Russia gets
the much needed foreign exchange" to keep her
hideous tyranny, her monstrous and monumental
governmental failure going?
Why, Of course, we citizens Of America; we
despised American bourgeois, we American farm
ers-brothers Of the skeletons on the Russian
sidewalks and in the cutters; we contemplate and
discreditable American capitalists; we misguided
and mistaken supporters of a free republic.
We stupid and ignorant believers in liberty and
democracy-w are supposed to contribute to
the maintenance of the most brutal and bloody
despotism that ever disgraced and defled Gods
earth.
More people dead by famine in Russia in two
years than died in the whole five years slaughter
Of the World War, and we are supposed to come
to the rescue of the Kremlin, this charnel house
built Of bones and cemented with innocent blood.
We are supposed to rescue this vile and vicious
system Of robbery and murder, so that these
* vic o1Yra
try to the end that we be robbed and murdered
also.
We, to our own undoing, are supposed to save
the Soviets from the righteous resentment OF their
own oppressed people
How are we going to save the Soviets!
DR.. Ammende points the way.
We must come to their aid with our grain sur
pluses.
Economists" says Dr. Ammende, and quote
him verbatim, shave been wondering how to dis
pose of these surpluses which contribute to the
distress of your own agriculturists, and this seems
to be logical reply.
DIR. Ammende then declared that the most
tragic feature Of the 1888 famine was the fact that
while millions of human beings were dying OF
hunger in the Ukraine" and other sections OF the
country, some seventy million bushels Of grain
exactly 6S 1893 1928 bushels according to our United
States Department of Commerce-Were exported
by the Soviets to acquire foreign money.
.ssThere is no doubt whatever" said DR..
Ammende, shat the grain which was exported
would have saved the lives of a few million human
beings"
Just a few million, says DR.. Ammende lightly;
but, continues he sadly:
tsTheir lives were not saved.
ssIt is for me-" says DR.. Ammende, "a great
satisfaction to note that the leaders of the churches
and the religious organizations in the United
States shared the opinion that the question OF re-
lief for the starving people Of the Soviet Union
must be dealt with independently OF the political
considerations as apurely umanitarian problem
How can we regard the question ''independ-
emily Of the political considerations?
How can we give aid and comfort to gang OF
criminal Communists who are robbing and MUIR
dering harmless farmers TO acquire foreign
money in order to support the government OF
the proletariat, and to maintain the he'd Army
which keeps the proletariat in poWer3
No wonder Lenin said: