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whose effectiveness was impaired by the persecu-
tion of a government which distrusted them as being
alien to its ideas.

The control and management of the universities
was taken away from them and complete authority
was placed in the hands of inexperienced and, in
most cases, illiterate. Communist Party members.
The instructors were required to emphasize the
superiority of the new communistic ideology over
that of the old or capitalistic system. This applied
not only to courses in sociology, economics, politi-
cal and historical sciences; but even in the teaching
of the exact sciences, which have no relation to so-
cial questions, such as physics, chemistry, and
mathematics, they were expected to insert the new
communistic doctrines and cite their advantages
over the old capitalistic ideas.

With the teaching staff, at best too small to take
care of the vast body of students, compelled to
spend great amounts of time in expounding the
finer dialectic doctrines of Marxism and Leninism,
both students and teachers were deprived of much-
needed time for other subjects. Yet upon the slight-
est suggestion—often no more than a suspicion re-
ported by the illiterate communist members who
controlled and dominated all the faculties of the