DEGRADED LIFE IN DRAINS
LENINGRAD TO BE CLEARED EVERY FORM OF DEPRAVITY CATACOMBS HAVE MAYOR By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received 10.20 p.m. London, August 8. The Soviet authorities have decided to clear from the Leningrad drains and catacombs the thousands of waifs, strays and criminals living in them. Most of the children are half naked and lead lives lower and more, degrading than the most primitive savages. The catacombs are full of empty vodka bottles stoken from the State vodka shops.
The population of the drains has its own Mayor. Life begins at midnight. Men and women teach the children every form of depravity. Officials describe the life in terms unprintable in England newspapers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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