Noted Soviet Leader Suicides
ATTEMPTS TO HELP STARVING PEASANTS. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. RIGA July 10. The suicide of Nikolai Shrypnik, a member of the inner Bolshevik Central Committee and a collaborator with Lenin, has profoundly agitated the Soviet which celebrated his sixtieth birthday in 1932 with State honours. The central authorities resented his recent attempt to alleviate their despotic- methods in connection with their agricultural policy in the Ukraine. The Pravda, in announcing his suicide, declares Shrypnik was a coward not daring to confess he had become the tool of venal spies. Many high officials in the wheat belts, Ukraine and t»isewhere aavo been sent for trial on charges of under-estimating the harvests, sending false returns and promising a share of the grain to the hungry collectivised peasants instead of allowing the bulk of it to go to the works in the unproductive industrialised areas.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1933, Page 7
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