SOVIET FAILS.
BLOW TO BOLSHEVISM. LENIN ABANDONS PRINCIPLES. NEW OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA. Telegraph-—Preea Assn—Copyright. Received April 15, 12.35 a.m. London, April 14. The Times* Helsingfors correspondent states the bottom has been knocked out of Bolshevism as the result of the Soviet’s concession of free trade and decision to substitute a produce tax in place of forcible requisitioning. Both decisions involve the recognition of private ownership, which is the antithesis of Communism.
The peasants are responsible for forcing the Government to abandon most of its cherished principles and it is unable to forcibly retaliate. They adopted a policy of passive resistance, producing sufficient only for their own needs, with the result that the population of the cities were reduced to starvation and the economic life of the country was brought to a' standstill. The continuance of this policy brought about the Government’s complete change of front.
The Times, in a leader, considers Lenin’s explanation of the new system is a candid and unqualified confession that his dictatorship of the proletariat has proved a disastrous failure, and nothing remains but a reversal to the principle of capitalism in Russian national life.—Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1921, Page 5
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