File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎483v] (614/1080)

The policy of Soviet Russia in Persia.—Let these English traducers read the paper of the
English Radicals. The Nation, which highly appraises the policy of Soviet Russia in Persia
as being the most sagacious and the most disinterested.
As the representative of Soviet Russia in Persia, Comrade Rothstein has succeeded in the
course of several months in winning the sympathy of the Persian nation, proving, in fact, that
the Soviet Government differs sharply from capitalistic governments.
Do you want facts ? Here are some.
The Soviet Government has refrained from making those colon nising inroads which the
Tsar’s Government carried out in Persia and it has returned to Persia all that that Government
had seized therein. Had Soviet Russia wished to introduce Communism into Persia, she would
not have been content only to discourage all those raids which Zabardast Khan, Khudo, and
others carried out in Persia. On the contrary, she fought the instigators of them.
Zabardast Khan, Khudo, and their supporters are interned in Soviet territory.
For a better appraisement of English policy in the East, of which vrandhi has already illus
trated one phase in his letter quoted above, we add here an extract from that same Civil and
Military Gazette under the heading “ The Future of Wano.” The paper says
“ Several weeks ago the extremist press of Lahore made a mountain out of a molehill
with regard to our occupation of Southern Waziristan. The editor bewailed
the loss of independence of a once Mussalman State at the hands of the greedy
English.”
Doubtless what several ignorant readers were persuaded of was that the fall of Wano
should be ascribed to the category of Mussalman towns seized by the godless Bolsheviks—like
Bokhara and others.
To which category should be ascribed the English imperalist occupation of Wano ?
They explain that occupation by assuming a necessity for establishing order there. But
why must order be established with English troops and why is this order so necessary to the
English ?—asks every sane person.
As a matter of fact, even the Soviet troops establish order and not necessarily on Soviet
territory, but only at the suggestion of an indigenous government. And for the pacification
thereby ensuing, a rain of curses does not descend on the Soviet. On the contrary, a meed of
thanks is earned as is evident from the telegram of the Chinese Governor Dudun-Zian-San to
Lenin and Trotski and which was published in Soviet papers.
Therein lies the whole difference. The Soviet Government does not go to Eastern countries
from motives of exploitation of their riches and of the enslavement of the native populations
under a pretext of the establishment of order. The best proof of this appears in the sympathy
of the enslaved East for the Soviet Government.
The English are losing their authority there.
No lie will re-establish that authority.
The nations of the East are rising from their sleep.
PETERS.
The way of revolution in India.
” The Indian peasantry can hope only in the young, though revolutionary, proletariat
of India.”—From a speech by Comrade Trotski at the 3rd Congress of the Communist Inter
national.
That state of acute ferment in which the population of the gigantic peninsula of India has
existed for some years is imparting new values to her frontiers while exalting her and setting
her as it were in a place apart from the other countries of the world. It is not only in capitalis
tic Europe that the forces at work in India are not wholly understood and where no full and
precise information regarding that country exists, for even Soviet Russia and its proletarian
masses do not understand the peculiar situation now constituted in India.
What are the moving forces which ceaselessly ripple the varied surface of that complexity
of States, tribes, classes, faiths, and castes which obtains in Hindustan 1
The basic cause of all social upheavals in India for the last score of years has been her inclu
sion in the imperalist system of the world.
Every year India is being more and more tightly enmeshed by imperialistic capital and
under its influence her social fabric is being transformed at lightning speed. There are many