BOLSHEVIK "CIVILISATION"
HORRORS IN THREE COUNTRIES,
Tha Rev. - R, .Courtier-Forster, .who lived ri Russia for, some vears before the war, gives an interesting description in the "Nineteenth Century' of the rise of Bolshevism, and of his personal experience of its effects in Russia, Galicia, and Austria, .In Russia, the very rapidity of the advance in education was a cause ,of discontent. A number of the' masters in the schools were secretly members of the .revolutionary party, find used their opportunities of moulding the elder scholars to their views. The,universities were crowded with students' possessing, inadequate means, and confronted by. tho attractions of a city life of feverish gaiety. Tliey fell an .easy prey to the propagandists lying in. 'wait for them.'" Even so, the number "of' thosi;-'who we're'actually- disaffected towards tho existing system of government formed an infiljitesimally small proportion of the population; but what thev lacked in numbers they made up in fervour. Again, the Germans say that Russian. industrial and commer-cial-progress would threaten .their own standing 'mid'that "the revolutionary propaganda would help to keep Russia back." Therefore,' German money poured into aid the revolutionists. Some time after the Russian revolution, Mr. Courtier-Forster was arrested by tha' Bolsheviks oh a charge, of being "a centre of disaffection and a political propagandist." Afterwards, he was accused of having been. concerned. in the blowing up-of the Odessa Arsenal, and of spending enormous sums of British money' in fomenting strikes in Southern- Russia.. •'■'." Ho was'deported into Galicia, and on the-recapture of the'town of Lwow (Lvoff) by the Poles was enabled to mako' his way into Austria. In every place he was a witness of the atrociffieg of Bolshevism. "I was m Lwow, ho says, "when the city was captured by the -Ruthenian Bolsheviks. lhe streets ran with blood.' The army returned from Russia terrorised the Polish population with the brutal atrocities which are everywhere associated with "tuo Bolshevik regime. People wore robbed in their houses and in the streets by the übiquitous search patrols •women outraged, children done to death, shops looted, and houses burnt, Violence and 'outrage:- occurred with sickening repetition day by day. Guns were jilaced on the Vysoki Zamock heighti commanding tho city/directed by German', officers and served by Gorman gunners. "■ - - ■•■■ ,-■ : "My experiences of Bolshevism m Austria wore no happier. An apt description of the situation wherever" the Bdsheviks succeed in establishing their domination was contained in the remark of a Russian friend of mine—'ln our Russia there'is now no God, no religion no Czar, no money, no property, no commerce, no happiness, no safety— oiiiy Freedom.' ■ ■• ■ . "Ani this is the wonderful New Civilisation we are asked to accept in exchange' for our own."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 11
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445BOLSHEVIK "CIVILISATION" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 11
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