Esperanto in Russia.—ln spite of the repression of the Esperanto movement by Stalin, as well as by Hitler and Mussolini, the movement still prospered in modern Russia, said Mr W. J. Collins, secretary of the Esperanto Society of Christchurch, yesterday. The society had received information that after the successful international conference in Italy and the recognition by UNESCO of Esperanto as an auxiliary internattional language, this subject was now a component of the philology faculty of the great new university of Moscow. Moscow University. now the largest seat of learning in the world, had a roll of 22,000 students.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27961, 7 May 1956, Page 14
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