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 | SOVIET UNION 39 right to freedom and culture. The longer the breathing space in which the Soviet Union can carry on its work of construction, without being compelled to devote its forces to measures of war and defence instead of to the great work of building up socialism, the richer is the harvest of knowledge, of example, for the women of East and West in the struggle for freedom. By working to assure peace to the Soviet Union, peacefully building up socialism, we are carrying our struggle for emancipation further and defeating the attacks of the worst enemies who enslave our humanity, prevent our free development. We must realise this fact: any triumph of the imperialists over the first workers' State will stimulate the bourgeoisie of all capitalist countries to intensify the exploitation and enslavement of the worker. Women will suffer the most under this, will bear the heaviest burdens. The enemies of the Soviet Union are our enemies, are the enemies of the human rights, the humanity of woman. Any injury to and disturbance of the work of socialist construction in the Soviet Union, injures and disturbs the work in our struggle for liberty. That is why we should not and cannot limit ourselves to pious hopes of peace in regard to the imperialists' threat on the Soviet Union. No ! we must arm ourselves for the struggle, we must meet it resolutely. We must avert the danger of war on the Soviet Union. That can best be done by each of us working willingly and energetically in our so- called fatherlands, to follow the glorious example of Red October, to break the class rule of the bourgeoisie, to destroy capitalism utterly. The establishment of the proletarian dictatorship clears the |