DIVORCE IN RUSSIA
NO REASON REQUIRED
NOW REACHES 75 PER CENT.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) " LONDON, 21st July. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that in five months 9681 marriages have been registered in Soviet Russia and 7255 have been divorced. A-s the result of a new law enabling the annulment of a marriage at tho desire of either party without giving a r;.-ison, the proportion of divorces to -usrriages has risen in twelve months fi0m..26 per cent, to 75 per cent. The Soviet's first campaign, was the destruction of the religious ceremony, forcing people to recognise the Soviet's monopoly. They next sought in 1925 to abolish even registration, making cohabitation the sole form of marriage. The attempt broke down, because peasant women said it was hard enough to Keep their husbands already. The proposal was temporarily withdrawn but was again introduced and became law in 1927, with the concession to peasant women that marriages and divorces may be registered if both parties agreed
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1927, Page 9
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