REDS’ RUTHLESS RULE
CAMPAIGN OF DEATH IN RUSSIA WAR AGAINST RELIGION MOSCOW, Monday. An organisation known as the “Class War Front” was responsible for 32 more death sentences being passed, according to yesterday’s newspapers. Those condemned included 14 Soviet officials in Astrakhan, who were alleged to have failed to crush or to have favoured private enterprise. Sentences of penal servitude ranging from one year to 10 years were passed on 108 others. The Ogpu (secret police) shot a priest, a psalm reader and two peasants for opposing the redistribution of land. Another priest and four churchwardens were sentenced to death for protesting against the closing of a church and for assembling a crowd by ringing the church bells. Nine others were sent to prison for 10 years, to be followed by exile. Minor newspapers record the executions of nine peasants which the chief newspapers do not trouble to report.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 806, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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149REDS’ RUTHLESS RULE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 806, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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