Woman Anarchist's View:
"Worst Regime on Earth"
A denunciation of Bolshevik methods, which gains force from being the opinion of a Russian Anarchist, was made in_ Berlin recently by Miss Mollie Steimer, who has the distinction of having been deported both from the United States and Soviet Russia, whence she has just arrived. She said she had been expelled for opposing the political system in Russia, which she. describes as the worst, the meanest, and the most hypocritical on. © She intends to. devote herself to alleviating the fate of the political. prisoners, which, she says, defies description. The treatment of these people in Russia, " pat arly the Anarchists, Socialists, and other revolutionaries, puts the Tsarist Tsarist regime inthe shade. They are imprisoned, exiled, and shot without trial for holding opinions obnoxious to -the ruling party. Often the worst punishments are inflicted merely on suspicion.
During her stay in Russia Miss Steimer was twice arrested, spent' three months in goal, and went twice on hunger-strike. After a month in: prison she was ordered to be exiled to Siberia, whereupon' she went on hunger-strike and was released by the intervention of som. French Communists. In July she was re-arrested with 39 other Amtarchists, though all they had been guilty of was relief work and correspondence with well-known Anarchists regarding it. The Russia prisons, she continued, were so full of political ~prisoners that many refused to take any more. The conditions the Solovietsky in
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