ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA
Sir,-"B. Honest" seems to have a very curious idea of what constitutes free elections. Every well-informed person knows that the candidates put up for elected positions in the U.S.S.R. are hand-picked by Josef Stalin or his Politburo. The position is the same as it would be here if no one not nominated by Peter Fraser or by Sidney Holland were allowed to stand. Such elections are a farce, and it would make little difference in the end if they were cut out and the Politburo nominated the
members without the formality of an election. The plain truth is that the Soviet is governed by a dictatorship, unexampled in history.
B.
SENSIBLE
(Auckland),
Sir,-Only a few lines are required to answer the letter from "B, Honest." Indeed he was answered in the same issue by J. Malton Murray. I was well awaie that men and women in Russia had the vote, but for whom can they vote? That is the question which your correspondent ignores. Elections in which there is no choice of party and no free press are not free elections. This is not a lie. but the
plain truth.
LIBERAL
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 24
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195ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 24
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