SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1924, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

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“An Englishman.” writing to the “Daily Mail.” continues his stury of Russia. He states: “Communism,

claiming to emancipate women t min the slavery of marriage and the drug of religion, has proved a curse. The women have stillered a great degradation. and I hey are passionately eager for revenge. Although there are now fewer prostitutes in the streets, morality generally has been lowered. The growth of venereal disease in Russia is appalling, and especially so among hoys and girls from 12 In II! years ol age. Lunnrchy, an idealist, who is engrossed in organising Red schools, is constantly bursting into tears, owing to the number of diseases which the children have brought- to the hospital.” “The Soviet,” the writer says, “has legalised abortion.” and he goes on to discuss the various social results at some length. “The marriage tie,” he says, is unmeaning. Divorces are being secured more easily than dog licenses in England. Ihe educated women tragically struggle to keep alive and remain respectable. I hey wear fragments of their old dollies. and they eat refuse. Despair has driven many to suicide. Others have become addicted to drug taking to relieve their sufferings. Tim women of good birth and breeding are constantly appealing to foreigners to marry them without obligations of any sort, to enable them to m cure passports to leave Russia