THE CHILDREN ARE WITH US

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 1

THE CHILDREN ARE WITH US

In the stanitza (settlement) of OuetKhopersk the revolutionary military Soviet was arrested by Koltchak'a a»my. All five members of the Soviet ■—old tried Communists-r-were subjected to the most cruel torture (the racfe, etc.), and then shot. An eyewitness of the execution relates how the Communists met their death fearlessly, and how one of them—a miner, Grachey—addressed his executors In the following speech:

I am an old convinced Communist. I learnt Communism in the collieries, and death alone can part mc from my convictions. If you offered mc life in exchange for my convictions I should refuse. Only your bullet can force nte to be silent. But don't forget, that thefe in the Voronezh Government I have four young boys, who will take terrible revenge for my martyrdom. They will follow the same path along which I wttfit for many years iv the fight against violence and evil.

In commenting on this speech, the i "Izvestia," of the' Central Executive Committee of Soviets, writes: "Not only Gracliey'i? four young eons will jemeraber their father's heroic death, but all the sons of Soviet Russia, all the sons of Communists. The children are with us." .