RUSSIAN PROGRESS
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HUNDRED THOUSAND CONVICTS EMPLOYED TO DIG CANAL AN EIGHTY MILE TASK
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
Moscow, Oct. Zb. The Soviet's flair for grand scale operations is again revealed by the mustering of 100,000 convicts and political prisoners of both sexes to excavate an 80-mile canal to connect the river Volga and Moscow. This will enable the largest ships to anchor almost in sight of the Kremlin. The huge army of workers is housed in barracks, and not heavily guarded, indeed the authorities explain that the guards are there chiefly to prevent pilferage of the materials. These unfortunates are being sustained in their long job by the hope of the granting of a large scale amnesty, as was the case when the White Sea canal was finished.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 674, 28 October 1933, Page 5
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129RUSSIAN PROGRESS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 674, 28 October 1933, Page 5
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