Documents of the Right Word

differentiate between what would be good and what would be bad
for themselves, so it was easy for them to fall victim to the lies.
The wretched and disastrous situation of today’s Russian workers
is, sad to say, the consequence of their inattentiveness and
stupidity.
At the beginning of the revolution, the communist authorities
pushed around many gullible people like mad dogs and had
everything ruined. They butchered innocent people without
interrogation. Most communist leaders were Jewish, who
revengefully made great efforts in setting the Russian people
against one another. Lenin (d. in 1342/1924) and Trotsky (sent by
Stalin into exile in Mexico where he died in 1358/1940), following
in the footsteps of Karl Marx (d. in 1300/1883), carried on his
policy of massacre under the banner of communism. The
murders they committed were so unsightly that people with a
conscience could not admit or even believe them. First social
classes were made hostile to one another. Then it became hard to
differentiate the friends from the enemies all over Russia, so
much so that it was not known who was with whom. This gave
birth to civil war, which made fathers fight against their sons and
brothers against brothers, and Russia was thoroughly covered
with blood. The civil war lasted for years, and millions of people
died. The country was burned and ruined everywhere. All public
works stopped, and unemployment, destitution and illnesses
destroyed people.
Before the revolution, however, communists, with the view of
dominating the whole of Russia, had founded a cruel
administration and established a dictatorship that had given so
many promises to the workers and peasants that their ignorant
heads had assumed that they would attain a paradise life. It took
the workers and peasants a few years to realize that they had
obtained nothing, that they had been fooled, trapped, and
plundered from head to foot. Yet it was too late. Now the
dictatorial state was preventing them from even sympathizing
with one another and was organizing massacres from time to
time.
Soviet Russian President K. Vocoshilov described the
following event to American Ambassador William C. Bulitt
during a feast given in Russia in 1934: “In 1919, I persuaded ten
thousand officers of the Czar to surrender together with their
spouses, promising that they would not be harmed if they would
surrender. They believed me and surrendered. I had all ten
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