Title | Women in the Soviet Union |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 67 pages: illustrations; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | HQ1662.W6 1929 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304548~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 |
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Transcript | 38 WOMEN IN THE Why is it our duty ? Because we think that the Soviet Union is not strong, not great enough to defend itself against the imperialists ? Oh, no! Whoever has seen the mighty forces displayed a few years ago against the imperialist powers, whoever has learnt of the glorious heroism with which the workers and peasants, and the women workers and peasants met the enemy at that time, does not for one moment doubt the outcome of new struggles. And, dear comrades, which ever of you has seen the overwhelming demonstration in the Great Theatre, which ever of you yesterday witnessed the magnificent parade of the Red Army, and realised the great power, the strong, resolute power behind the heroes of the Red Army, the proletarian masses, marching with the same enthusiasm as in the past, the cry upon their lips—" Always ready !" —you are convinced that the Soviet will come out victorious from any struggle with their enemies. The fight will be carried on in the knowledge, the will, the incomparable courage not only of men, but of all the women who achieved freedom and equal rights because of Red October, and who know that they are assured of freedom and equality only in the State of proletarian dictatorship. But we are not concerned with that. We are not only concerned with the working masses outside the Soviet Union, including the women, fulfilling their natural and elementary duty of international solidarity. The working women must realise that they are protecting their own interests, their own freedom, by averting the war danger from the Soviet Union. In defending the Soviet Union, in preventing imperialist attacks on it, they are protecting the motherland of their own equality, their own |