EXODUS OF PEASANTS
GOOD RUSSIAN STOCK FOR CANADA BERLIN, Monday. There arrived at Kiel by a Russian steamer 323 migrants of German blood, the vanguard possibly of a wholesale migration of some of Russia’s best peasant stock. They are descendants of German settlers who were established in Russia by Catherine the Great and the Emperor Alexander 1., who intended them to serve as a model for the native peasantry. Although their example was not followed they themselves throve. Their descendants continued their journey to Hamburg, where they embarked on a steamer for Canada. Before their departure they said life in rural Russia had become impossible. Those who were on State farms were just serfs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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114EXODUS OF PEASANTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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