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 42 Ossinsky, a prominent Communist, sums up the anti-democratic retrogression of the Bolshevist régime in Pravda, December 20, 1920, as follows:

In describing the steady reactionary trend toward the dictatorship of a smaller and smaller number of men, we cannot stop with the assertion that it is the Communist Party that controls, for the question arises, who controls the Communist Party? This is easily answered. At a special meeting of the Soviet Economic Conference in January, 1920, Lenin said: