EXODUS FROM RUSSIA
BEST PEASANT STOCK
EMIGRATING TO CANADA
BERLIN, sth November.'. Ihere has arrived at Kiel, from Eussia, a steamer with 323 migrants of German blood, who are the vanguard of possibly a wholesale migration of some of Bussia's best peasant stock, Xhey are descendants of German settlersestablished in Eussia by Catherine the Great and Alexander I.; who intended them to serve as a model for the native peasantry. Though their example was not followed, they themselves thrived Their descendants continued their journey to Hamburg, where they embarked for Canada. Before iheir departure they declared that life in rural Bussia had become impossible. Those on btate farms were just serfs.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 111, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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111EXODUS FROM RUSSIA Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 111, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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