SOCIALISING RUSSIA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 75, 12 March 1930, Page 8

SOCIALISING RUSSIA

THE FART ¥7OmEN TAKE. REPORTS SENT TO LENIN'S WIDOW. [United Press Association—By CableCopyright.] tendon, March 10. A Riga correspondent states that Soviet newspapers publish a report by Lenin's widow, based on despatches from Communist women, which aims at proving how Russian women have assisted in socialising the countryside. She assrts that she receives regular reports from villages, demonstrating how well-to-do farmers are being expropriated resolutely and mercilessly, despite resistances One report declares that a young Communist named Chaplizin went to a Communist propaganda meeting, but was apprehended by a numbr of women and peasants, who cut him into little pieces. As the actual murderers escaped, ten other persons were arrested. “You should see how we are collecting converts. Five hundred stout youths assemble, f\alf mounted on horses. We swoop down on a village where Socialism is backward. It is a fascinating spectacle. We oeat any we catch among the agitated villagers, who submit forthwith.” Soviet newspapers comment approvingly on the warlike development of Russian women removed from religious influences.