THE REAL EAOTS. John Buchan, in volume 31 of his splendid “History of the Great War,“says (page 300): — “Alcohol, forbidcreu in Russia since 1914, played its part in the chaos; for the right of distilling spirits became a Bolshevist perquisite and vodka "was a favoured form of Bolshevist propaganda,As one reads of the ghastly deeds of these criminal revolutionaries It can easils’ os nnderstood*that something was needed so “steal away their brains” before the stolid Russian peasant could do changed into a bloodthirsty villain. Vodka, that wretched spirit, did the trick well.*
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11962, 13 December 1919, Page 4
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92Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11962, 13 December 1919, Page 4
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