FATHER DENOUNCED
DAUGHTER REWARDED BY SOVIET PENSION AND FREE SCHOOLING (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 29th March, 1.0 p.m.) MOSCOW, 28th March. A twelve years old peasant girl has been awarded a pension of £l4 a month, and also a free education at the best state school, as a reward lor denouncing her father to the Ogpu for stealing grain from a collective farm on the Volga, tho crime being punishable by death. The girl wrote: "I am not afraid of my father. I joined the young pioneers and learned it was my duty to expose him. Now I have written this I feel better.”
The young pioneers arc tho Russian equivalent of the girl guides.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 2
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117FATHER DENOUNCED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 2
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