SOVIET METHODS
IN NORTHERN CAUCASUS STERN RULE OF PEASANTS LONDON, 3rd February. Tlie Bign. correspondent of "The Times" says the Soviet has placed the Northern Caucasus, which contains 9,000,000 people, under the control of a special cropping committee, empowered mercilessly to establish compulsory labour, evict and deport recalcitrants, and impose the death penalty without appeal.
It is alleged that peasants are sabotaging the Government's plans by making the bulk of the land derelict.
The decree, which is designed to terminate agricultural chaos, orders the organisation of the peasants into landclearing gangs. Officials who show mercy will be drastically punished. The district ivas proclaimed completely colleetivißca in 1931, but the peasants badly cultivated only half of the proscribed area, resulting in open warfare with the grain collectors, who deported many, suspects to the northern forests.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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