RUSSIA’S EXPERIMENT
. LENIN IN EIFFIODLUES. PEASANTS DEFEAT COMMUNISM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 14. ‘The Times V Helsingfors correspondent states that tho bottom has been knocked out of Bolshevism as a result of tho Soviet’s concessions in regard to free trade, and the 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 its most cherished principles. They were unable to retaliate forcibly, and they adopted a policy of passive resistance, producing sufficient only for their own needs, witli the result that the population of the cities was reduced to starvation, and tho economic life of the country was brought _to a standstill. A continuance of this policy during the coming seeding season would have a catastrophic effect; hence the Government’s complete change of front. ‘The Times,’ in a leader, considers that M. Lenin’s explanation of the new system Is a candid and unqualified confession that the dictatorship of the proletariat has proved a disastrous failure. Nothing remains but a reversal to the principle of capitalism in Russian national life.— ‘Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 17636, 15 April 1921, Page 4
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196RUSSIA’S EXPERIMENT Evening Star, Issue 17636, 15 April 1921, Page 4
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