Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anglo-Russian Treaty: Round condemnation: "Under that treaty, the rightful claims of British subjects are whittled down to an undefined extent, and Parliament is to be asked to commit itself in the eyes of Russia and of the world to the principle of guaranteeing that the British taxpayer shall repay the Bolshevist loan if the Bolsheviki, in accordance with their practice, should fail to repay that loan...
...Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those with hundreds of years of tradition behind them, it is utter folly. Compare Germany, Austria, Russia, Hungary. Think of the suffering France has gone through to achieve republicanism...
...great purpose of the Soviet education program is to turn out a vast number of confirmed Bolshevists to man the elementary and Rabiac schools, and to carry out the technical functions in industry. Before the war Russia was the worst educated European country; the establishment of the collectivist millennium depends upon the thorough solution of this inherited burden of ignorance and incapacity...
...students are carefully kept in the goose-step, and any who would molt into swans or ducks are ungently and forcefully removed from their positions. The subtle manipulation of financial pressure which Mr. Sinclair finds everywhere in America, is replaced by the action of bayonets. The new generation in Russia may learn all the physics, engineering, and mathematics that it can these are not dangerous. But political economy, government, history, are all painstakingly censored, even more than natural history in Nebraska...
...education will be preserved as long as the present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...