IN RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1930, Page 3

IN RUSSIA

A CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, December 22.

The “Daily Express” Moscow correspondent- says Bolsheviks economic revolution involved in Stalin’s five year plan for the industrialisation of the State, has already left its mark on Russian life. There are incredible changes in the last three years. Bijg shops gaily illuminated and bulging with provisions nrc replaced bv

scantily stocked State co-operative stores, where shivering workers stand in melancholy queues for hours awaiting food. The whole nation is existing to-day on rationed food. Bourgeoisie who are without cards,'are only too glad to get horseflesh. Thousands of others are subsisting on black bread and cabbage soup. There is no actual starvation. Taxicabs are drizen off the street by taxation. Meanwhile one of the most modern motor car factories in the world is nearing completion at Nijni Novgrad which has housing accommodation in the vicinity for fifty thousand. One of the largest hydro electric barrages spans the Dnieper. The world can rest assured that the counter revolution which European capitals predict, is most remote.