BETRAYED FATHER TO OGPU
STATE REWARDS RUSSIAN CHILD.
THEFT OF GRAIN FROM FARM.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Moscow, March 28.
A 12-year-old peasant girl has been awarded a pension of £l4 a month and also free education at the best State school as a reward for denouncing her father to the Ogpu (secret police)' for stealing grain from a collective farm near the Volga, the crime being punishable by death. The girl wrote: “I am not afraid of my father. I joined the Young Pioneers and learned that it is my duty to expose him. Now I have written this I feel better.
The Young Pioneers are the Russian equivalent of the Girl Guides.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 7
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