The facts describing the village Soviet of the Uren borough present a shocking picture which is no doubt typical of all other corners of our provincial Soviet life. The chairman of this village Soviet, Rekhalev, and his nearest co-workers have done all in their power to antagonize the population against the Soviet rule. Rekhalev himself has often been found in an intoxicated condition and he has frequently assaulted the local inhabitants. _The beating-up of visitors to the Soviet office was an ordinary occurrence._ In the village of Bierezovka _the peasants have been thrashed not only with fists, but have often been assaulted with sticks, robbed of their footwear, and cast into damp cellars on bare earthen floors_. The members of the Varnavinsk _Ispolkom_ (Executive Committee), Glakhov, Morev, Makhov, and others, have gone even farther. They have organized “requisition parties” which were nothing else but organized pillagings, in the course of which _they have used wire-wrapped sticks on the recalcitrants_. The abundant testimony, verified by the Soviet Commission, portrays a very striking picture of violence. When these members of the Executive Committee arrived at the township of Sadomovo they commenced to assault the population and to rob them of their household belongings, such as quilts, clothing, harness, etc. No receipts for the requisitioned goods were given and no money paid. _They even resold to others on the spot some of the breadstuffs which they had requisitioned._ In the same paper (No. 98), March 9, 1919, another Bolshevist writer, Sosnovsky, reported on conditions in the villages of Tver Province as follows: The local Communist Soviet workers behave themselves, with rare exception, in a disgusting manner. Misuse of power is going on constantly. _Izvestia_ published, January 5, 1919, the signed report of a Bolshevist official, Latzis, complaining that “in the Velizsh county of the Province of Vitebsk _they are flogging the peasants by the authority of the local Soviet Committee_.” On May 14, 1919, the same journal published the following article concerning conditions in this province: