General Election In Russia
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 9. The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says oratory is becoming. more fervid as polling day for the first Soviet general election—December 12—-approaches.
The entire State party machine is working at full pressure. All citizens are expected to attend electoral meetings, which always develop into pro-Stalin demonstrations.
About 100,000 “agitational centres’'’ are teaching the electors their rights and duties. Members of the Young Communist League in Moscow are canvassing every room in their crowded tenement. It is hard work drumming such things into the heads of people who have never voted before, and 1,000,000 persons have been mobilised to undertake propaganda throughout Russia.
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Northern Advocate, 10 December 1937, Page 5
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