Traders and Vodka 1 “Th« Times " corespondent- at Riga reports that the Communist leaders hail the decline of the prosperity of private traders as one of the chief victories on the home front. All speakers at the Communist Congress emphasised that the decline was a great achievement. Stalin declared that traders and vodka were neoessary evils, useful for oiling the financial machinery. The vodka monopoly is producing £50,000,000 per annum. He hoped for an increase of 300 per cent, in consumption owing to improved distribution. Mikoyan. Commissar of Trade, pointed out that the total of private trade declined 19 per cent, in 1927 and wholesale trade 22 per cent,, owing to special taxation, the wihdrawal of credit and stricter control. These facts were paraded before the congress in refutation of the Opposition’s accusation that the Stalinites were unduly sympathetic towards bourgeoisie.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 7
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