“NEW PERSECUTION” OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS
THE “EYES’’ OF MOSCOW [ United Service. ] LONDON, Oct. 3. The Daily News Moscow correspondent says that Lenin’s sister. Maria L'lianova, reporting to an editors’ congress, describing' - "! he new’ persecution of the working class, *ieeiared: “Thirty-two of our village correspondents have been murdercvl in the pa t eight months.'' Th** murderers ar** usually richer peasants against whom the present Jan*-! policy is directed. Houses, crops, stacks are fired an*l many workers are beaten (luring th*? harvesting season. The correspondents are Bolsheviks stationer! in villages to fan the class war. launch. Communist propaganda, invent slogans, antagonising rich and poor farmers. They report to the Soviet every occurrence including where the harvest*?! grain is hidden. They are Moscow's eyes, without whom the State grain collection would be impossible. Isolation makes their position precarious. Al any similar correspon*k*nts in factories are likewise persecuted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7
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