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A DISAPPOINTED IDEALIST

A dispatch from Munich states that the suicide of Mme. Sou.ia Lcrch, t'ue. well-known German Socialist, was due. t,> her keen disappointment at tho disgraceful failure of the Russian Revolution. Mine. Lerch was arrested some weeks ago for carrying on a seditious agitation in Munich, and she succeeded in bunging herself in her cell while waiting for her trial for high treason. In her farewell letter to her friends she wrote:— "When the Russian Revolution began I was overjoyed. When .Lenin acceded to power at i'etrograd my beppiTicss knew no bounds. Then came Mow after blow. Lenin and Trotsky were false to every principle of democracy. Their policy fortified the Inst stiongholds of imperialism in Cerm:iny, in Austria, and in Hungary. Their folly has discredited revolutionary Socialism all over the world. "The Bolsheviks have assassinated in Russian thousands of peaceful citizens. They have imprisoned their most honourable political opponents. They have inaugurated tho most savage reign of terrorism. Tho condition of Russia under thfr Bolsheviks fills me villi despair. The policy of tho Bolsheviks in supporting Germany and Austria and Turkey fills me with disgust. All my ideals are shattered. All mv fondest hopes are cruelly deceived.''

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180831.2.38

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 294, 31 August 1918, Page 8

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200

A DISAPPOINTED IDEALIST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 294, 31 August 1918, Page 8

A DISAPPOINTED IDEALIST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 294, 31 August 1918, Page 8

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