To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiva Daur News"
Sm,—The following is taken from "the Cheka: The Red Inquisition."
Inthe schools and universities the Cheka has its special watchers among the scholars and students, who have to test the "Communi purity" of their own comrades. It} was by means of spying of this Hind that the expulsion of vast] numbers of students in the summer of 1924 was effected. This tragedy, of the Russian students was the work of the Cheka. Every student was (in the seventh year of Soviet rule!) tested with regard to his Communistic views and proletarian origin. 'This work was carried out by specially appointed Chekists. As a result 60,000 students were ex-yelled from' the universities and their careers ruined. Many tried to get abroad. Only'a few succeed ed, Hundreds and thousands of the unhappy students committed suicide. Ju the autumn of 1924 there was an epidemic of suicide among Russian students........In October 1924, the following' incident occurred in Moscow. An announcement trade one day to the students who had been excluded the Universicy, en the ground of bourgeois origin to the effect that: All the students excluded from the universities, who with to finish their studies abroad, are requested to present them: selves on Saturday next at 10.30 am, in the courtyard of the Tretja-Koff Gallery, in order to draw up a joint. application for permission to leave the country.' The ouncement was signed by a me Ler of the Communists Students'
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