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communism under the influence of the illusions and fancies
caused by this intoxication, turn away in remorse and regret when
they recover.
In 1952, Masentso, a communist leader in Italy, was sentenced
to three years of imprisonment by an Italian court for his
destructive activities. Somehow he managed to escape from
prison and fled to Czechoslovakia, which had already attained
the “Garden of Paradise.” Upon waking up in the midst of his
dream and seeing the bitter, naked truth, he could not stay there
long. For a while, he tried to conceal his regret and
disillusionment, but at last he fled to a free country, Austria,
where he asked to be handed over to Italy with a view to
completing the three years of imprisonment he had been
rightfully sentenced to. He said, “Life in Italian prisons is more
comfortable and better than living in communist countries, which
we have assumed to be Paradise.” A number of the names of
those who, with the same regret and disillusionment, have
escaped from that red pitfall of murder are known by the free
world: Kravchenko, Sakharov, Kasyanova, and many others. It is
a well-known fact that nearly one and a half million distressed
people, most of whom were villagers and workers, fled to the
West and took refuge in various free countries by taking their
chance when the Second World War tore a gap in the iron
curtain. Then, how will those eccentric leftists explain the
lamentations of these doomed people who managed to escape
from the red world, which they try to misrepresent as
“Paradise”?
The masked big red serpent promises factories and other
industrial lines to the workers, vast land areas to the peasants, and
peace, freedom and prosperity to the people of the countries it
aims to swallow. Let us now see what it bestowed upon the
Russian people and upon Caucasus, Turkestan, Ukraine, Latvia,
Lithuania, Estonia and its other satellites. Instead of the factories
and lands it had promised to the workers and peasants, it offered
not only the vast, blank Siberia, which is covered with its perpetual
snow and ornamented with its fifty-degrees-below-zero
temperatures, it also gave them the chance of easily dying by
felling trees in wild forests, with a hungry belly, in that
unaccustomed cold. Instead of the freedom promised, there was
handcuffing and gagging slavery; instead of welfare, it gave tearful
destitution, wretchedness and hunger. And it made countries into
prison camps surrounded by walls of shame and isolated behind
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