COLLECTIVE FARMING

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 7

COLLECTIVE FARMING

VAST NEW SOVIET SCHEME REMOTE REGIONS SETTLED OBJECTORS GO TO SIBERIA STERN MEASURES ADOPTED Bv Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Aug. 31. The Times’ Riga correspondent says that the Soviet has prepared a vast new agricultural and cattle-breeding scheme designed to supplement the collective farming system. Besides organising settlement in remote regions, particularly Siberia, and bringing virgin soil into cultivation, the plan affects the entire peasantry, aiming to absorb refractory peasants banished from their homelands and disperse or destroy recalcitrant national minorities resisting the socialisation of agriculture. The latter part of the plan already has been enforced against Cossacks in North Caucasus on a scale only now revealed. The inhabitants of villages during ,the past year have been ejected from their homes and transported to the remote north and Siberia by trainloads. Cossack farmers crowded into cattle trucks and scantily clothed have been despatched to unknown destinations. New populations have been imported for some villages, while other villages have simply been burned and fugitives shot. / Thousands of male Cossacks have been sent to convict camps. Convicts who constructed the White Sea-Baltic canal already have begun digging a canal from Moscow to the Volga.