We learned that the Winter Palace had been plundered and that many of its treasures were in the hands of foreign bandits from both hemispheres who came to our country to rob, take and plunder. They pulled down our tricolor flags--white, blue, and red. White stands for snow, blue for the heavenly sky and red for the blood spilled in defense of our country. They hoisted their own flag over the Winter Palace. They removed the double eagles from the buildings and were burning them on the streets before the eyes of respectable citizens. They emptied the historical treasures preserved for generations by our forefathers, the pride and wealth of Russia when she was in her glory. These treasures were sold abroad. The wine cellars of the Palace were broken open and the mob drank so much wine that some of them literally died from it; the rest of the old wines were poured from the bridge into the Neva River. The secret police still was working at the time of our arrest. Before our exile the names appearing below were given to my Father which he remembered and made us remember. When some of these men found it necessary to escape from Russia for their lives, they were given sanctuary by other countries, instead of being tried for their crimes against the Russian people. These men dared to look into the eyes of Russians knowing what they had done to them, and how easy the Russian people had forgiven them all the wounds they had inflicted upon them. Communism was founded and organized by these men whose real and assumed names follow. _Original names_ _Changed to_ Bronstein _Trotsky_ Tsederblum changed to Ulianov then to _Lenin_ Apfelbaum _Zinoviev_ Rosenfeld _Kamenev_ Goldenberg _Mikhovsky_ Krachmann _Zagorsky_ Hollender _Mieshkovsky_ Tsederblum II _Martov_ Himmer _Sukhanov_ Goldmann _Goriev_