or a few years, then we, in any case, congratulate you on your unusual modesty."
It is the belief, however, of Zinovieff and of all the Bolshevist leaders that even if revolutions are not materializing very rapidly or as speedily as expected that the revolutionary movement which is so valuable to the communists in other particulars is continuing to spread and that because of it they can rely more and more upon support and aid in one form or another from the entire labor movement of Europe. In other words, they believe that their propaganda is bearing more and more—fruit and there is much to support their view. In an article in the Petrograd Pravda, November 7, 1920, Zinovieff wrote:
Three years ago, we were absolutely alone on the international arena. We know and believed that the international proletariat would understand and appreciate our movements, and would be with us. But at the same time we could not fail to see that at that time the intertional proletariat as yet was not with us.
And how all this has now been radically changed! Yes, the International Proletarian Revolution is developing much less rapidly than we had wished. But never-the-less it moves forward.
Why have the Imperialist giants, the robber League of Nations, and the very rich and blood-thirsty bourgeoisie of England, France, and America failed to date to destroy the single proletarian Republic—Soviet Russia? But they did not do this solely because the working class of Europe and America is in its heart behind us.
The Bolshevist leaders realize and confess that the strength of their movement in Russia is very largely
