Farmers Murder Red Officials Behied “Iron Curtain”
(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Farmers in some areas behind Russia's iron curtain have murdered several Communist officials in a bitter struggle against farm collectivisation, says the United Press correspondent in Washington, quoting reports from foreign sources.
One report was the publication of a story in the Soviet Lithuania which, in the issue on December 2, said: “Bourgeois nationalists in Lithuania are using intimidation and murder in an effort to hinder the great work of expanding the people’s economy.” An unconfirmed report from Poland said that 12 farm agents of the Com-munist-controlled Government have been slain since September 1 by angry peasants. Russia only recently began efforts to impose collective farming on the Baltic States and it is believed that Marshal Tito’s refusal to speed up the programme in Yugoslavia is the basic reason for his split with the Kremlin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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