SAYS NON-RUSSIAN STOCK HOLDS REINS IN RUSSIA

"Non-Russian stock rules Russia. Of all the great leaders of the Bolshevik party, Lenine was the only important one of Slavonic blood."

This fact is one of the most important elements in the present Russian situation in the view of Mr. George G. Sommaripa, Russian student of Slavonic birth, who graduated from the Business School in its first February graduating class last week.

When a CRIMSON reporter asked yesterday for his impression of the Russian situation, Mr. Sommaripa emphasized the fact that the Slavonic race, which constitutes 96 per cent of the total population of Russia, does not hold the seats of power in its own country. "This is the reason," he pointed out, "why the Terror is so cruel in Russia, ten times more cruel than it was in France. This is also the reason why, as you will find, the Christian religion is the one which is so bitterly persecuted in Russia."

Bolsheviks May Be Ousted

This fact makes Bolshevik continuation in power doubtful. "Russia is not represented by the Bolshevik party," he said, "it is ruled by it. Six years of that rule in the length of history is too short a time to settle its permanence. The oppression of all fundamental rights is yet in Russia."

Mr. Sommaripa has enjoyed very extensive association with leaders prominent in Russian political life. A graduate of the Military School of the Grand Duc Constantin and of the college in Kiev, he served in the early years of the war in the Imperial Army both with the General Staff and at the front. In 1916 he was wounded, and taken prisoner by the Germans. After two and one-half years in the prison-camps of Germany, he escaped, joined General Denikin's Government in southern Russia, and acted there as private secretary to the Minister of Railroads and Communications until he came to this country in 1921.

Should Picture Reds in U. S.

Mr. Sommaripa protested against current superficial and erroneous impressions and statements about Russia. "The Russian Revolution," he said, "is as large and deep as Russia herself. Her situation and her strength for political liberties, for liberty of the press, of education, of religion, of forming business organizations, and carrying on international trade, independently from state supervision, should be lighted only by those who have been in Russia for several years or by those who are able to penetrate the Russian psychology. Here the best interpreter is a Russian who in blood belongs to the great Slavonic race." He further declared that, for Americans, the best approach to a better understanding of the question is merely to picture the Bolshevik party in power in America, a solution, he said, which would be no less unpleasant here than it is in Russia.

Mr. Sommaripa looks forward to a change in Russian affairs. "The propaganda of the Third Internationale in Russia," he concluded, "has led to the growth of national feeling. The death of Lenine is irreparable for the Bolshevik party. They are already split, and it may take two or three years more for their downfall. Then the representatives of the Russian people will enter into power to decide upon the form of government, and the next dictator of Russia will be freedom."