MARRIAGE ABOLISHED
EXTRAORDINARY RUSSIAN "*~ DECREE. WAVES TO BECOAIE PUBLIC " PROPERTY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 18, 2 a.m.) LONDON, February Art "astoundin£ "Bolshevist marriage proclamation has been posted East Russia and carried out at Ekaterinburg. It commences: “In compliance 'With the decision of the Kronstadt Soviet, the private possession of women Is abolished. Social inequalities and legitimate marriages have passed. They. have- served, .as instruments- hy,-.which. all the most beautiful women, have her come the property of the bourgeoise and the proper edntinuation of the human race prevented. Accordingly, ifter March Ist, the right to possess women between the ages of seventeen md thirty-two "'is abolished, and they ire proclaimed the property of the whole nation. Tho'decree does not af-" i’ect women having live children.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10207, 18 February 1919, Page 6
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