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BRUTALITY IN RUSSIA WEEPING FAMILIES LOOK ON (United Serviced ■Reed. 10.48 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says that M. Molotoff, a member of the Political Bureau, confirms the report that 300 peasants near Izhevak were summoned to the premises of the fire brigade and publicly flogged, in the presence of their weeping families, for ignoring the regulations about maintaining fences. Some, when fetched from their homes, tried to defend themselves with axes and guns. The whole villages resounded with the shrieks of women and children.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 471, 28 September 1928, Page 9
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