FAMINE IN RUSSIA
PEASANTS STARVING Soviet Does Not Want War RELIGIOUS REVIVAL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. Miss Natalie Grushenkova, a member of the Russian Missionary Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was an assistant professor at Leningrad University until she went to London University. While in London she became a Christian. She is now touring the world helping other exiled Russians Miss Grushenkova said that on her tour she was watched by Soviet agents, who insinuated that the society was more than religious in its aims. When in Australia (ho Communistic, element tried to interrupt her addresses. The visitor said that there was a great religious revival welling up in Russia. The people could not, and would not, do without religions. She said that peasants were far from satisfied with the communal farming system. There was actual famine in Russia now, and at present a conference in Geneva was trying to . devise a way of helping Russians who were starving. These facts the Soviet would like to suppress. The Soviet, she said, did not want war now, as it was not ready, and it feared a revolution in ease of war.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 231, 12 September 1934, Page 7
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