Prof. Hyman Levy, head of the department of mathematics and mechanics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and only Jew of note in the British Communist Party, today denounced the Soviet Union. He visited that country recently and came out with a report criticizing Soviet treatment of Jews.
Attending the Communist Party Conference, Prof. Levy declared openly that, on his recent visit to the USSR, he “saw and heard things that shook me to my foundation.” “I got my belly full, ” he said, “enough to last me a lifetime.”
The so-called “errors and distortions” conceded by the present Soviet regime and attributed to Stalin, he stated, “did not spring into existence suddenly, out of the blue.” Those so-called Stalinist characteristics, he continued, were part of “Soviet gangsterism which has been growing and developing for years. It is part of the history of Socialism that Marxists have to know and understand.”
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