AFFAIRS IN MOSCOW
NOT, SO BAD AS IN PETROGBAD,
LONDON", 19th February. , The Daily Chronicle's Moscow correspondent states: "The. Bolshevik regime is milder here, and the traces of starvation less pronounced. It is the city of refuge for. the 'Intelligensia.' Many former officers are selling newspapers in the streets ; others are unloading trucks and sweeping crossings. The proletariat is not faring much better. The factories are_ gradually closing, and unemployment is. increasing- owing to the want of raw materials. "Een in soldiers' uniform are making great profits by selling food at excessive prices after securing the Revolutionary Committee's authority to confiscate peasants' goods, the peasants being flogged if they fail to "give the goods. The,'lntelligensia' are not seeking palliatives, being convinced that the masses must learn from bitter experience what Bolshevik Socialism means."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 7
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