Bolshevik Propaganda; Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session And ... And 469. February 11, 1919, to March 10, 1919
2012 · 686 pages
2012 · 686 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...people, regardless of the Soviets, believed in Bolshevism. Mr. Williams. In answer to that I can point to the elections. I'nder the soviet rule about 5M) per cent of the people over 18 year of age--men and women--can vote. In those elections under the soviet system they seem to vote for the soviet form of government. The answer is made to that. " Yes; but these elections are not fair elections; they are held by certain forces; they are held under intimidation." I do not U'lieve it is true to any extent. The only effective answer I can make is this. In Vladivostok the soviet government wadestroyed by the Czccho-Slovaks, with the Japanese and English rooperating. A month later they proclaimed an election in that it. ami they said. " Now that all of these tyrants are in jail, ami now that iill of these dictators are put away, we will have a fair election." Then were 17 political parties on the ballots. Some one ha--aid where there are three Russians in a room there are four Mliti-al parties. They have a genius for politics and kindred problem-. Vladivostok wa-not a soviet city. Bolshevism did not nave any strong h«.Id on the city. hccauM-it was an upper-cla--city. But when they counted these tickets they found that ticket Xo. 17. which was the Bolshevik number, had more votes than all the other 1» put together. I do not think. Senator, it was because the people of Vlndi vostok were altogether Bolsheviks: I do not think they were. I think thev voted to register their feeling against allied intervention that had iiapened. In the second place, martyrs had l«een made out of the Bolsheviks. The Russian heart always goes out toward a martyr. Now. this is a concrete instance of au election held n»t under soviet auspieces. Mr. H...
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