TROTSKY IN EXILE.
EX-LEADERi IX DIRTY TOWN IN SIBERIA. LIFE SOFTENED WITH LITTLE PRIVILEGES. (United Press Assn.—Copyright) (Aust. and N.Z. Calle Association.) MOSCOW, Feb. 9. ” Details of Trotsky’s life show that lie is living in a dirty little Siberian town of W;erny inhabited mainly by Chinese. It is revealed that the hardships of the place are sdftened by many privileges that are not granted to less illustrious persoiis. He occupies a live roomed flat in tho best house in the town and is provided with a horse on which he takes morning rides and has a monthly pension equivalent to £22, which comes from the Central Treasury of Communists. Trotsky is forbidden to w?ite for newspapers, but lie is completing a theoretical work on Marxism, He cannot leave the town without permission, and is not allowed to go more than a mile without an escort. His correspondence is subject to’censorship.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 3
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150TROTSKY IN EXILE. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 3
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