SOVIET ORDER
for: depopulation
OF OVER-CONGESTED CENTRES
(Ur : tcd Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, December 29
“The Times’s” correspondent at Riga says that the Soviet has ordered the depopulation of all of the overcongested centres. The depopulation is beginning with Moscow, Leningrad anu Kharkolf. The Soviet lias also ordered the restoration of the internal passport sysj tern, which was abolished at the bej ginning of tiie Russian revolution, I when it was denounced as being a police instrument, designed to oppress the toiling masses. The depopulation decree involves the expulsion of the unemployed persons, the labour truants, the Kulak minded 1 elements, speculators, traders, thieves, and hooligans, thus releasing the dwelling space for bona fide proletarians, and also relieving the scarcity of foodstuffs at the industrial centres. The destination of the outcast undesirables is not disclosed. All persons over sixteen years of age must possess a passport, without which it will ho impossible for them to obtain permanent domicile anywhere,
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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160SOVIET ORDER Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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