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| Title | Facts and fabrication about soviet Russia |
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| Publisher | Rand School of Social Science |
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| Date | 1920 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 93 pages; 20 cm. |
| Original Item Location | DK265.C55 1920 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304542~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | with the evident intention of influencing their editorial opinion, has expressed this version of the "truth" about Russia over his own signature: ... It is the contention of the Department of Justice. . . . (1) That the present aim of the Russian Government and its officers is to foment and incite discontent, aiming toward a revolution in this country. (2) That the entire movement is a dishonest and criminal one; in other words, an organized campaign to acquire the wealth and power of all countries for the few agitators and their criminal associates. (3) The Red movement does not mean an attitude of protest against alleged defects in our present political and economic organization of society. It does not represent the radicalism of progress. It is not a movement of liberty-loving persons. Lenin himself made the statement at the Third Soviet Conference, "Among the one hundred so-called Bolsheviks there is one real Bolshevik, thirty-nine criminals and sixty fools." It advocates the destruction of all ownership in property, the destruction of all religion and belief in God. It is a movement organized against Democracy, and in favor of the power of the few built by force. Bolshevism, syndicalism, the Soviet Government, sabotage, etc. . . . are only names for old theories of violence and criminality. Having lived at the expense of the Russian people for two years, these speculators in human lives and other people's earnings are trying to move to new fields to the East and to the West, hoping to take advantage of the economic distress and confusion of mind in which humanity finds itself after the terrific strain of five years of war. Its sympathizers in this country are composed chiefly of criminals, mistaken idealists, social bigots and many unfortunate men and women suffering with various forms of hyperesthesia. . . . —(Letter reprinted in the Nation, Feb. 14, 1920, p. 190. Presidential Fabrication Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall was reported in the New York Times of April 21, 1919, to the effect that he "would send a sufficiently large force to Russia to thoroughly exterminate the Bolsheviki." A dispatch from El Paso ran as follows : "This is no time for temporizing with the Bolsheviki," the vice-president said. "Naturally, I am a Democrat and believe in the voice of the people, but I think that voice should come through the ballot box and not through lawless persecution and bloodshed.,,— (New York Times, April 21, 1919.) President Wilson himself took a hand in misrepresenting the Russian situation on his speaking tour through the country in September, 1919. In many addresses he went out of the way to make statements like the following: There are apostles of Lenin in our own midst. I cannot imagine what it means to be an apostle of Lenin. It means to be an apostle of the night, of chaos, of disorder.— (Speech at Helena, Mont., reported in New York Times, September 12, 1919.) 14 |