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With stark, brutal candor the Soviet State announced, last week, through its official news organ Isvestia, that savage and murderous resistance to the Soviet Power is now being made by members of the Kulak or "Rich Peasant" class—the class most relentlessly taxed by Moscow's sovereign Proletariat.
"Telegrams are pouring in from numerous parts of the Soviet Union," declared Isvestia, "with the news that deeds of arson and murders of active Communists are being perpetrated by the Kulaks. . . . Soviet farms, village libraries and Soviet bureaus have been burned down...