“execution on the spot”. Then the Government in order to brutally 
lerorise the inhabitants publishes the acts committed under the flag of 
official “Red Terror”. In 1922, Lenin, addressing his political foes and 
naming them “counter-revolutionary bourgeois”, said: “You have provoked 
us to a most desperate fight in October; the result was our bringing forth 
terror, intense terror; only a few hysterical intellectuals doubt its necessity. 
[f it becomes necessary, we will bring it forth again.” It became necessary 
in the summer months of 1927, when, quite unexpectedly for most people 
there occurred a number of terroristic acts in Russia, directed against 
the communist party and the representatives of the G.P. U. This “individual 
terror’ was an answer to the governmental terror. The Government replied 
by new arrests of hostages and shootings on a wholesale scale. 
It is incontestable that the breaking out every now and then of flashes 
of the “hysterical Terror” (an expression of one of the notorious leaders 
of the Cheka — Peters) does not have at the present time and cannot have 
the character of that really medieval nightmare, which it had in the first 
years following the seizure of the Government by the Bolshevici. The 
Governmental Terror has been so habitual a phenomenon that people have 
become accustomed to it and it has ceased to frighten. The psychical 
depression of the terrorised population is gradually passing; the people are 
awakening to revolutionary activity and protest against the despotic group 
of political leaders standing at the head of the Government. The Govern- 
mental Terror is giving birth to the Terror of the discontented aimed at 
the agents of the Government and the representatives of the G.P.U. A new 
generation is appearing on the scene of history. It is alien to the moods 
and the reasoning in the atmosphere of which the Red Terror was born and 
existed. 
The policy of Terror resulting at the end of ten years in the Covern- 
ment surrounded by enemies. There are two camps in the country, — the 
victors and the defeated. The troops of special commission and those of the 
G.P.U. remain up till now faithful to the Government. But protest 
gradually rears its head, the lower classes become boisterous, and it is not 
an institution of the G.P.U. sort that can stop this growing discontent 
of an invisible crowd numbering many millions. “Political Banditism’’ 
(an official Soviet expression) is the chief method of struggle. That means 
a ruthless settlement of accounts with the governmental agents every 
time it appears possible. Every communist is, in the eves of villagers, such 
an agent and therefore loathsome. 
The “Red Terror” has led the communist party into a blind alley. 
Surrounded by enemies its power will perish; history will write down its 
murderous and senseless deeds and the flaming inscription: “Red Terror’ 
will remain as an eternal “memento mori’