THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK
"Like Lenin, nearly four hundred years Inter," writes a contributor in "John o' London'? -Weekly,", "John o£ Ley.den aimed at nothing Jess than the entire transformation'of civilisation-on communistic lines. AH persons ■wore forced, under pain of death, to hand over all their money, jewels, and plate to the common fund. A new.legal code was published; disobedience and discontent were made: capital olfences. Men Is in private "were forbidden; all persons were forced to .surrender their stores of food and to cat and drink together at the public tables. Finally, polygamy was introduced, John himself setting tho oxample by marrying no fewer than sixteen wives."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20
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107THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20
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