"THE REAL ENEMIES OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE"
"The Real Enemies of the Russian People" I' N April of 1944, I was" assigned by the Soviet Government to a job in Mexico, and until September of 1946 worked as Commercial Attache at the goyiet...
...And this is why it is hsted also by tho great majority of Communists, even by men closest to the government...
...The world-renowned professor of metallurgy, V. A. Paiukhin, who had spent his life in honest work, died in the prime of life, in 1941, in a concentration camp...
...Such stories are told the Russian people for the purpose of arousing their indignation against the democratic regime of the USA...
...During my work at the Stepniak gold mines, I saw the toiling Russians people in Kazakstan driven to desperation...
...thus they try to win the sympathy of the democratic nations, essential to the Soviet regime...
...Before the war, I witnessed a strike at the Krasnourelski copper smelting plant, in which workers stayed away from work, exhausted by the "Stakhanovite" sweating...
...S. P. Alexandrov (known in America), a prominent expert in metallurgy and former director of the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, accepted in 1936 the job of chief engineer of the CULAG (Department of Concentration Camps...
...But it has become clear to me that my ' work, like that of the whole Russian people, is beneficial to the Soviet regime, and not to themselves...
...No nation is more exploited, or rather enslaved, than the Soviet nation...
...This is how Stalin builds his land of "Socialism" where, to quote his words, "labor is a matter of honor, of valor and heroism...
...Millions of guiltless men snd women hare been put into concentration camps, and provide the stale with unpaid manpower, working under conditions unheard of even in the history of the most despotic regimes...
...After that I designed and constructed one of the most important war industry plants in the Soviet Union, and later worked as chief engineer in large munition factories...
...I had to refrain from talking about it even with my closest friends...
...I happened to see these prisoners work before snd during the war...
...NKVD in homes, NKVD in factories, kolkhozes, sovkhozes, NKVD like an ill-boding ghost shadow, everybody, everywhere...
...Rut the NKVD—Stalin's right arm (his left arm is the Communist Party)—holds sway not only over Jails and concentration camps, but also over all Russian .workers and intellectuals...
...This man was now obliged to extol the Soviet system...
...1 saw ruined familiea whose guiltless fathers had been sent to camps, and wives and children were doomed to perdition...
...And a friend of mine, a mining engineer, who worked in Norilok, a place in the Arctic North, spoke of them with tears in his eyes...
...ALL my life I have loyally worked for the Russian people, whom I love and to whom my attachment is very deep...
...methods...
...Fedor f. Raskolnikov, ex-Soviet minister to Bulgaria who "died" mysteriously...
...Ignace Reiss, Soviet Intelligence official who was assassinated in Switzerland, and recently Igo Xiouzenko, Red Army officer in Canada...
...Alexiev's condemnations of the Soviet State were characterized as the camouflage of an "embezzler...
...During my sojourn abroad, I have realized the monstrosity of the lies spread in the Soviet Union about "the beastly exploitation of workers in the capitalist countries...
...Among them the daily toll of death from overstrain and hunger went into the hundreds...
...Living now in the United States with say wife and two children, I consider it asy duty to state publicly that I am opposed to the Soviet regime, and explain the reasons of my antagonism...
...In reality, the American worker strikes to protest against the existing conditions and to obtain higher wages...
...All these things happened at the time when the Communists exulted in the victory of "Socialism," deceiving the foreign workers and the whole world, and carefully concealing the horrid truth...
...But the plant did not stop work...
...As a student, I drank and spoke with a fellow student, Kutsenko, a former resident of the Ukraine, the bread basket of Russia, who went through all the horrors of collectivization and avoided starvation only by feeding on dead human bodies...
...It is interesting to note that almost all of them have been charged with "embezzlement...
...According to Soviet propaganda, workers' strikes are brutally suppressed in the US, while in the Soviet Union nothing of this kind can happen...
...But he is not faced with the gruesome problem of saving his children from starvation, a problem that has haunted the Soviet worker since the inception of the Soviet regime...
...Academy, and continued as "assistant" at the Academy for the prescribed period...
...In spite of this, workers driven to despair sometimes, though very rarely, risk a strike...
...EVEN men belonging to the closest entourage of tho dictator do not feel safe...
...Among the other Soviet officials who in the past have fled "out of the night" are: Alexander Barmine, former Soviet diplomat in Athens...
...They are the arbiters of tho fate of millions of the Russian people, but they know that their own destiny is at the mercy of the supreme ruler...
...Walter Krivitisky, head of Soviet Millitary Intelligence in Western Europe, and who "committed suicide" in Washington...
...The Soviet demand that he be returned to Russia, and to almost certain death, was fortunately denied by the U.S...
...This example of "free socialist labor," -of course, has never come to the knowledge of foreign workers...
...The article which is printed here is the complete original text not hitherto available...
...The government persistently tries to inculcate the spirit of anffnosity toward everything" foreign...
...I saw corpses of men who had died in deserted mines, and dead bodies of children • abandoned by their desperate mothers who had not the heart to see them die slowly from starvation...
...Kirill Alexeiv Explains His Break With the USSR Flight From Terror When Kirill M. Alexeiv, former commercial attache of the USSR in Mexico, fled to the United States for sanctuary, he was greeted by the usual abuse that the Soviet Union reserves for those of its citizens who manage to escape NKVD nets...
...It is true that strikes hardly ever occur in the USSR, but the reason is that the least protest entails cruel suppression by the NKVD...
...I also knew A. Gromyko, at that time one of the numerous teachers of "political literacy...
...One of them, P. A, Abroskin, arrested in 1938, has disappeared since...
...The Soviet Government's domestic policy is based on the principle of complete isolation of the Russian people from the democratic nations, especially the USA...
...The Real Enemies of the Russian People" I' N April of 1944, I was" assigned by the Soviet Government to a job in Mexico, and until September of 1946 worked as Commercial Attache at the goyiet Embassy...
...But I feel sure that in this country they will become free human beings, and I firmly believe that my family and I will be given an opportunity to start a new life here...
...on the grounds that no formal extradition treaty existed between the two nations...
...I visited and engineer Kremenchugski, who worked in a mechanical plant...
...I graduated from the Moscow Mining...
...This is why the great majority of the Russisn people hale the Soviet regime...
...On the other hand, Soviet agents abroad conduct a fervent propaganda in favor of the Soviet system, and disseminate false information about flourishing conditions of life in the land in which "Socialism" has been achieved...
...his wife and 7-year-old daughter also vanished, leaving no trace...
...Actually, the entire Soviet Union la a concentration camp where the fate of everyone depends on the perfidy or the NKVD...
...The elemental human urge to live and keep the family alive compels the Soviet people to resign themselves to this constant horror, and even to work for the NKVD...
...Alexandrov has been set free, and Is now in the Soviet diplomatic service...
...And this is the reason why-4 cannot return to my homeland and doom my family, which has become accustomed to breathe the fresh air of freedom, to a life under the hell of dictatorship...
...Others, millions of them, Including prominent experts, whose names I cannot disclose, are now perishing in camps...
...Life abroad has opened to me the true meaning of what I saw in the Soviet Union...
...When an accident occurred in the mines, the rescue of workers was prohibited so that they were buried alive, no care was taken of the sick, and tho least attempt to protest was suppressed by execution and loosing of bloodhounds...
...Victor Kravchenko, Soviet purchasing agent who wrote "I Chose Freedom...
...In 1941, before the war broke out, I was in the Ukrainian town Norozovsk...
...It was hardly of his own free will that Prof...
...He presented to me his 5-year-old son who did not know what sugar was...
...For a whole month they had received no bread (their staple food, since nothing else could be obtained), and, with wages miserly as they were, could not afford to buy bread on the market...
...Prisoners were promptly brought from concentration ramps, and the strikers were taught a brutal lesson by the NKVD...
...Finally, I was chief engineer of a Trust uniting a group of the most important plants of the aviation industry...
...Of my very close friends, honest and efficient men, many perished guiltlessly...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 4
