Death Sentences for “Cook Wreckers”
FILTHY CONDITIONS IN COMMUNAL KITCHENS
Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, July 13,
The Times’ Riga correspondent says what the Soviet Press describes as intolerably filthy conditions in the industrial kitchens and the inedibility of the food served in the workers ’ restaurants in Moscow has resulted in five “cook wreckers’’ being sentenced to death and seven being imprisoned for from 18 months to eight years after a demonstrative four days’ trial. The victims were apparently scapegoats selected with suitable non-prole-tarian origins, including Mikhail Oshkin, an ex-Czarist officer and landowuier who was sentenced to death, while his two sons were imprisoned. Witnesses testified that soups and other dishes regularly contained quantities of rubbish, nails, hair and glass. The Court declared that it was proved the accused had mixed these in the food for the purpose of discrediting me ►Soviet and undermining State industry.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 3
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