“Terror & Persecution” Of Soviet Citizens Alleged By Red Star
LONDON. Feb. 27. Declaring that, more than 300,000 Soviet citizens are still outside the Motherland, Russia’s Army newspaper, Red Star, alleged “persecution and terror” against them in displaced persons' camps, says Reuter’s correspondent in Moscow. The article followed an announcement that the Soviet Foreign Office had sent protest notes to British and American Embassies against alleged obstacles to the return of Russians from Germany and Austria.
In Berlin, the British spokesman said: “We are holding no Soviet citizens against their will in the British zone and the Soviet repatriation mission is operating “freely there.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22883, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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