Foreign News: Moscovites & Tartars

This year Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are the only parts of the Soviet Union to fulfill 100% the grain shipping quotas set by the Soviet State. Last week virtuous Moscovites and Tartars were rewarded by Dictator Josef Stalin. He decreed as a signal boon that all collective and even individual peasant farms in Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are authorized to sell any surplus grain which they may have left for what it will bring.

Throughout the rest of the Soviet Union, state grain collectors (supported where necessary by troops) will...

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