Incredible read about how Communism's main goal is to destroy the family and natural customs to begin the downfall of a country and culture. Eerily similar is how the small percentage of city dwellers dominated political ideas that were then thrust upon the 80% rural population who were totally against most of these policies.
This appeared in The Atlantic in July 1926
web: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1926/07/the-russian-effort-to-abolish-marriage/306295/
pdf: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1926/07/138-1/132379824.pdf
a few excerpts:
This appeared in The Atlantic in July 1926
web: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1926/07/the-russian-effort-to-abolish-marriage/306295/
pdf: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1926/07/138-1/132379824.pdf
a few excerpts:
- One must live in Russia to-day, amid the atmosphere of torment, disgust, and disillusionment that pervades sex relations, the chaos, uncertainty, and tragedy that hover over the Russian family,
- When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. 'To clear the family out of the accumulated dust of the ages we had to give it a good shakeup, and we did,'
- There are three hundred thousand bezprizorni or shelterless children in Russia to-day, who are literally turned out on the streets. They are one of the greatest social dangers of the present time, because they are developing into professional criminals. More than half of them are drug addicts and sex perverts.
- It was not an unusual occurrence for a boy of twenty to have had three or four wives, or for a girl of the same age to have had three or four abortions. As the peasants of Borisovo-Pokrovskoie bitterly complained: 'Abortions cover our villages with shame. Formerly we did not even hear of them.'