Peking, Mar. 12.
One of the most puzzling features of the Soviet publicity system is the wide divergence of tone between the propaganda published abroad for purely non-Russian consumption and the facts and figures which appear in official journals in Russia which are meant to be accessible to the Russian people. It would sometimes seem that all the dyed-in-the-wool Reds were abroad doing missionary work while all the conservatives were at home telling each other how badly things were going.
Peking has only recently direct access to the official Bolshevist press. Official publications under January and February dates are now beginning to arrive and they, are full of figures and of news and comment also, which certainly do not appear to be optimistic com-mumist da. That the theories supported by the Third International still grip the Russian imagination, ig evident enough. For instance, Russia is no longer the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. Russia has officially ceased to exist as a state and is now the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Also the State still proposes to manage communications, industry and foreign trade, but a ing movement is being launched which is in direct contravention of all communist doctrine and which is in itself a complete confession of the failure of its application.
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