Evening star., 1946-09-22

birth of a male child there was an
amnesty which included some Of the
political exiles. No such thing Is pos
sible now. The many suspects" are
sent to special concentration camps in
the most remote parts of the U. S. S. r.
and few ever return. There are no
subversives, as existed in the days OF
the Cars, among the millions of gov
ernment officials, administrators or IN
the ranks of the secret police. For Sc
curitys sake, every one from the highest
to the lowest official undergoes Sc
curity test at least once a year and
the outside world hears only occasionally
of the individual purges. Only mass
purges cannot be concealed.
| All connection between Russia and
the outside world is strictly controlled.
! The U. S. S. R. is the only country on
| the globe where subversives cannot
thrive and where there is no under
ground movement, as existed in Ger
many, Italy and Japan during the days
when these countries were relationships.
IIliteracy Is Reduced.
| The Soviet government has done
| good deal to reduce the illiteracy among
| its people. But the citizens of the
| U. S. S. r. are less free today than
during the most autocratic rule of the
Cars.
Revolutions cannot break out easily
in Russia not only because of the
! drastic methods which have prevailed
in the past and still prevail, but also
because there is no cohesion or national
unity among the many races which
form the Russian empire There is
greater variety of races, languages, re-
ligions, alphabets and degrees of civili-
zation in Russia than in either China
or India. The social uprisings in that
country during the last and the present
century have been prompted from the
outside and occurred at times when the
country was at its lowest ebb.
The Bolshevik revolution in 1917
would not have been possible if the
German general staff had not shipped
the entire Lenin group from Switzer-
land into Russia, thus completing the
disintegration which started a year
earlier but which might not have caused
such drastic changes 1t is interesting
to note that only about 1000 individuals
forced themselves on a population Of
190,000000 and brought about the mo-
mentous changes which we have wit
messed. The "mujiks," as the Russian
man from the grass roots is known, let
these men do what they wished because
the fatigue of the war made them well
come any change.
Conditions Different Now.
It is because Of this precedent that so
many wisnful thinkers believe that his
tory can repeat itself. To observers who
have watched the history of Russia
closely, the prospect of a repetition Of
1917, even if Stain plunges his country
| into third world war, appears very
| remote. Conditions which existed in
1917 do not exist today. There is no
! outside propaganda or any moving
! spirits such as the great revolutionaries
! Kropotkin, Lenin and Trotsky, to cause
the Russians to throw off their present
! servitude. Only a handful of political
refugees, without any organization, is
spread around the world. And these
refugees would be only too glad to make
their peace with Russia.
Unquestionably there are some major
domestic problems which would greatly
concern a western government but
which concern the Russian Politbureau
only slightly. There have been some
country which has been unruly for
many generations. 1t is equally correct
that there have been some undisciplined
actions among the soldiers who came
back from the war and who learned
things" in the countries they "liber-
ated." Even the destroyed Polish Ger
man and Austrian cities appeared
glamorous to these sons of the steppes
who in their simplicity wondered why
they couldn't have such luxuries as
| toilet.
But all these waves of discomfort can
be done away with quickly. The great
army games played in the Ukraine under
the command of Marshal zhukov by
100000 Red soldiers have had desired
effect on the population of that country.
The wholesa ale removal of all the natives
d,
Kazawstan and other remote parts Of
the U. S. S. r. put an end to the discon-
tent in that area.
Rumors Held Propaganda.
So long as the NKVD remains un-
| affected. any serious break against the
F.! Kremlin is out of the question. And
members of the state police are bound
to remain solid behind their employers
since they are given extra privileges.
| The trained American observers re-
| gard the rumors about the active dis
content in Russia as fine piece Of
| propaganda to lull our leaders into a
feeling of security.
1t is known that there are some Of
| President Trumans advisers who are
urging him to do nothing to strengthen
the Nations defense forces, even in these
critical days, lest such action cause the
| Russian people to rally around Stain
once more They say that any false
| move in this country, such as the Pres
| ident using his wartime powers to re-
integrate some of our ground forces and
our air forces, would be taken advantage
of by the Russian government It's
propagandists would Immediately rouse
the people in the U. S. S. R., pointing out
that they are in danger of being attacked
again.
Analysis shows this reasoning to be
unsound. Russia is completely cut off
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