“Cook Wreckers”
MORE SOVIET SCAPEGOATS DEATH SENTENCES PASSED <By Telegraph—Press Association--Copy right) Received July 13, 6.15 p.m. LONDON, July 13. The Times’ Riga correspondent says that what the Soviet press describes as intolerably filthy conditions in industrial kitchens and the inedibility of the food served in the workers’ restaurants in Moscow, has resulted in five “cook wreckers” being sentenced to deach and seven being imprisoned for terms ranging from 18 months to eight years. A demonstrative trial lasted four days. The victims, apparently, arc scapegoats selected witn suitable non-prole-tarian origins, including Mikhail Oshkin, an ex-Czarist officer and landowner, who was sentenced to death, and his two sons imprisoned. Witnesses testified that soups and other dishes regularly contained quantities of rubbish, nails, hair and glass. The Court declared that it was proved that the accused had mixed these in the food for the purpose of discrediting the Soviet and undermining State industry.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 164, 14 July 1933, Page 5
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