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iron curtains. From 1927 to 1939, seventeen million innocent
people were annihilated in Russia, alone, where freedom, peace
and prosperity were promised. These are no stories, but naked
facts.
Before the revolution and civil war in Russia, many socialist
parties appeared all of a sudden. Labourer Democrats, Peasant
Democrats, Bolsheviki, Mensheviki, Rightist and Leftist Liberals,
and the Kadet Party were amongst them. Each of them came
forward with different ideas and propaganda. They made speeches
before every gathering whether big or small. These activities were
persistent in villages, factories, small workshops, squares and even
on narrow streets. Explaining their programs with attractive words
and with all kinds of promises to the people, these parties deceived
and gathered well-to-do people as well as the unemployed. This
turmoil went on for months. The unending speeches and noise
amazed the people, who became too stupefied to distinguish
between right and wrong. The people were next to being
unconscious and intoxicated.
The most powerful of these parties was the one that made the
most promises, i.e. the Bolshevik Communist Party. They
addressed only the workers and peasants. They said that the
workers and peasants would take the places of their employers and
become equal shareholders in businesses and lands, that there
would no longer be slavery to the rich, that they would live in the
apartments where the rich lived, that the rich would clean and
sweep up the streets, that the peasants would be made landowners,
and that the lands of the farmers would be distributed to the
working peasants.
What was common in the propaganda of the Bolshevik Party
and the Labourers Party was the promise of ending their servility
and slavery to the rich. They forecasted that the day of salvation
was near at hand.
These socialist and communist parties repeatedly said that they
struggled to protect the rights of the workers and peasants so as to
provide them with a high standard of life. If the workers and
peasants followed them, they would share the honour of being
saviors.
“O you workers and peasants! If you wish to be saved from
claws of the bourgeoise, capitalists, lords and all other exploiters,
vote for the Communist Party and gather around it,” they said.
Especially ignorant workers and peasants could not
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