Two years of earnest study, investigation, and research convinced me that the great benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper, painted in glowing colours to the masses of Europe and America by efficient Bolshevik propaganda. As advertising wizards the Bolsheviki excel anything the world had ever known before. But in reality the Russian people have gained nothing from the Bolshevik experiment.[cvii] “Those familiar with the real situation in Russia,” Goldman also wrote, “and who are not under the mesmeric influence of the Bolshevik superstition or in the employ
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