BOLSHEVIC BLUFF

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 3

BOLSHEVIC BLUFF

PLENTY OF THEORY PEASANTS’ GRAIN SAVES (Aust. and N.Z. Cable» London, Sept- 6. The Financial Times, whose special ’correspondent lias returned from Russia-, says tat although djuring the last 10 years t* le Russian Government has accomplished -an ailmosfc unbelievable amount of theoretical reconstruction, costing -astounding sums, it has produced absolutely nothing in tl ,e way of practical results.' The Soviet’s pretentions to economic progress amount t° nothing more than one of the greatest bluffs' the world has ever seen. None ol its schemes have thus far produced the supply of such articles as any ordinary person needs in daily life. If it were not for the backbone presented hi' the . ordinary Russian peasantry» who go on leisurely providing fresh; capital to the national exchequer in- the shape ol grain deliveries, there would be no Soviet 111 Russia to-day.