I have been explaining to you my ideas, expecting that you will
publish them. You over in America are not able to imagine how
horrible the life in Russia at the present time is. The period
after the French Revolution surely must have been as a life in a
paradise compared with this. Hunger, brigandage, arrests, and
murders are such every-day events that nobody pays any attention
to them. Freedom of assemblage, association, free speech, and free
press is a far-away ideal which is altogether destroyed at the
present time. Arbitrary rule and terror are raging everywhere,
and, what is worst of all, not only the terror proclaimed by the
government, but individual terror as well.
My greetings to all friends and comrades.
OSKAR TOKOI.
THE END
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Plechanov never formally joined the Menshevik faction, I believe, but
his writings showed that he favored that faction and the Mensheviki
acknowledged his intellectual leadership.
[2] They had gained one member since the election.
[3] Quoted by Litvinov, _The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning_,
p. 22. Litvinov, it must be remembered, was the Bolshevik Minister to Great
Britain.
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