PURGE IN RUSSIA
CHILDREN AND TEACHERS MANY ARRESTS MADE MOSCOW, Oct. 21. School children and their teachers are among the latest to come within the scope of Stalin’s purge. Seven teachers and 60 pupils have been arrested. The teachers have been charged with having taught anti-revolutionary doctrines. Against the children, it is alleged that they have paid an undue amount of attention to the arrests of alleged plotters against the Soviet. Action by the Soviet secret police against the schools is a new phase of Stalin’s drive. It is designed to extend strict political control to educational institutions in the effort to remove all elements of opposition to the Soviet.
One man has been executed, and 10 others have been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for having robbed freight trains of goods to the value »..£ 4,000,000 roubles. Five men have been executed hi the Black Sea region and nine in White Russia, on charges of having plotted against the Soviet regime. The Commissar for Internal Trade, M. Veytzer, has been removed from office.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19468, 29 October 1937, Page 2
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