Word: bolshevikis
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday John Haynes Homes, pastor of the Community Church of New York City, who has recently visited Russia and studied conditions there, out lined what he believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity...
...declared that the world owed a three told debt to the Bolsheviki "First," he said, "they saved Russia as an organized society contrary to what most people believe". The crash had already come, peasants had revolted, murdered land owners, and seized land, the Russian army had dissolved, railroads had stopped and factories had closed the return to say agery had begun before the Bolsheviki finally came on the scene. In a ter months the Bolsheviki established the Soviet Government, spread a Red army all over Russia and Siberia, and righted all the evils. This is the greatest single achievement...
...years have passed since the fall of the provisional government. But the aims of the Bolsheviki dictatorship remain as irreconcilable as ever with the fundamental life interests of Russia. Social welfare, popular enlightenment, domestic order and international security will not be assured to the Russian people as long as the Bolsheviki continue to hold Russia in the grip of their party dictatorship...
...Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived Ukrainian republic. He played off the Poles against the Bolsheviki and the Bolsheviki against the Poles and, eventually, again fell from power, this time to flee to France, where he lived in Paris until slain there by M. Schwartzbard. Under his regime, it is charged, more than 50,000 Jews were killed...
...boys using bad language, because he turned a hose on a small riot and because he sewed the shirts of two youthful fighters together "like Siamese twins." The punishment of the youngsters seemed to be well merited, considering what thugs they are-but not in the eyes of the Bolsheviki...