Word: bolshevikis
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...ever so. The Puritans in old England fought for religious toleration only to become more intolerant than the Churchmen when they came to power. The Bolsheviki overthrew the worst despotism in Europe only to set up the most sinister tyranny that history has recorded. Liberty we fear, is still invoked by certain radicals only in so far as it can be made to favor their aims...
...valiant little Army in Northern Russia has been defeated again by the reorganized forces of the Reds. We can picture the feelings of the Allied officers and men placed up there in the Russian winter, not to win a victory and crush the forces of the Bolsheviki--the Army is obviously too small for that--but to keep fighting somehow against perilous odds that the Allies might not be accused of passively accepting anarchy...
...only the more hopeless reactionary element of the Bourbons and Tories who regard the President's peace proposals as a sort of half-way house to Bolshevism. Having more brains than the Bourbons and Tories, the real Bolsheviki have perceived from the outset that their real enemy was Wilsonism. That is why they unhesitatingly chose German autocracy as an ally and why they have resisted the President's program as bitterly as Junkertum itself...
...elected its officers and thus, in place of several hundred men housed together and united only by class spirit, we have in our midst a democracy ruled by four men. The problems of the Bolsheviki government may well be compared to what these newly chosen officers have to face. For the war has made 1921 the only class in the University where activities are carried on as they were in peace times. The rest of the classes have been cut down to fractions of their normal size, athletics are on a miniature scale, and the result is that the Freshman...
After weeks of dilly-dallying the Russian Empire has finally succumbed to German intrigue. The Bolsheviki government has declared peace on all fronts and Germany is now free to bring all her troops to the Western Front...