The children are engaged in speculating in the streets. Pro fessor Sorokine quotes awful facts of the absence of moral among children and of the spread of venereal diseases among them. A 13 years old boy, asked by the physician, whence he had so much money, answered that ey boy had a little girl and the girls had their Commissars who paid them well, Lenin and Lunachareky, Commissar for education, acknowledge that about nine million children of school age remain yearly out of school—and this could not be otherwise, as all money goes to the Red amy.
In the year 1913, during the Tsar's Government, about 400 million gold roubles were spent for education.
Not even 2% millions are spent now, The Government fixed the school fees at 60 gold roubles a year, which is equal to milliards of Soviet roubles.
Lunacharsky himself says as follows:—"A deep obscurity of ignorance begins to cover Russian children—the children of the Russian revolution. In comparison with this the dorisest darkness of Tsarism seems to be a bright era. Owing to lack of means the greater part of the schools have had to be closed." (Published in "The News of Self-Education," No. 2, November 1929, edited in Berlin by Y.M.C.A.
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