A few days after the _Polnotch_ was closed another paper appeared in its place, called _Notch_ (_Night_), but this one was just as rapidly suppressed. Again _V Glookhooyou Notch_ (_In the Thick of Night_) appeared for a brief period, and still later _V Temnooyou Notch_ (_In the Dark of Night_). The paper was thus appearing once a week, and sometimes once every other week, under different names. I have all these papers in my possession, and their contents and fate would readily convince the reader how “tolerantly” the Bolsheviki, in the early days of their “rule,” treated the adverse opinions of even such leading Socialists as Alexander Potresov, one of the founders of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, who, for decades, was one of the editors of the central organs of the party. The publication of G. V. Plechanov’s--Russia’s greatest Socialist writer and leader--the _Yedinstvo_, after it was suppressed, appeared in the end of December, 1917, under the name _Nashe Yedinstvo_, but was closed down in January, 1918, and the Bolsheviki _confiscated its funds kept in a bank and ordered the confiscation of all moneys coming in by mail to its office_. This information was even cabled to New York by the Petrograd correspondent of the New York Jewish pro-Bolshevist newspaper, the _Daily Forward_. The _Nashe Yedinstvo_, at the head of which, besides George Plechanov, there were such widely known Russian revolutionists and Socialists as Leo Deutsch, Vera Zasulitch, Dr. N. Vassilyev, L. Axelrod-Orthodox, and Gregory Alexinsky, was thus permanently destroyed by the Bolsheviki in January, or early in February, 1918, and never appeared again under any other name. The newspapers _Dien_, _Dyelo Naroda_, the Menshevist _Novy Looch_, and a few others did make an attempt to appear later, but on the eve of the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty _all_ oppositional Socialist newspapers were again suppressed wholesale. In the underground Socialist bulletins, which were at that time being published by the Socialists-Revolutionists and Social Democrats, it was stated that this move was carried out by order of the German General Staff. The prominent Social Democrat and Internationalist, L. Martov, later, at an open meeting of the Soviet, flung this accusation in the face of Lenin, _who never replied to it by either word or pen_.