The best proof of how the democratic spirit had impregnated "the masses of the Union was in the fact that the draft of the new Constita~ tion was discussed for four months the. whole nation before it was Presented to. the. Sth. Extraordinary Congress of Soviets; there was no factory, no institution and no collec-five farm where the draft had not Hieon discussed, and thousands concrete proposals were sent 10 the Central' Executive Committee for consideration ase to. ino Te might interest them 1 that the principle of secret ballot was already. being realized in all public organizations, and first of all I all party and Wadesunion "elec ons. 'On dune 1, new elections in these trade union' organizations, for Instance, would be on the basis of secret ballot.
To. show how the Soviet. -system guaranteed diferent nationalities their free development, he would ake for an. example the Tartar Autonomous Republic, which had a lad time before the revolution. Now {twas organized in an, autonomous Fepublic, with its republic centre at Kazan; the population of the republic, was about three million people. 1013, 83 per cent. of the population was' illiterate; to-day, there wore 2700 "elementary "schools and. 720 middle schools, with 850,000 children tending them. Tu addition, there were twelve universities and colleges 35" technical schools.
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