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 Rh education in the most explicit manner at the All-Russian Political Education Conference on the 5th of November, 1920. (See Soviet Russia, April 30th, 1921.) He explained that the teachers must be, first of all, political propagandists and humble followers of the Communist Party:

But the school teacher the world over has a certain minimum respect for his calling. Though the overwhelming majority of the teachers under Kerensky were Social Revolutionists or Social Democrats, they were teachers, and not propagandists. Dismissed by the wholesale, the majority of the new teachers are scarcely more amenable. Lenin and Lunacharsky, Commissary for Education, complain bitterly of this difficulty and pursue their usual method of vilifying their victims. Lenin says, in the speech just quoted:

Already for a long time the teachers' organization has been fighting against the socialist transformation. In