RUSSIA: Failure to Weed

In picturesque Tashkent last week, Farmer George Lomakin was tried for sabotage. "You are accused of failure to weed adequately, " rattled off the Bolshevik prosecutor, "and of using too much fertilizer." According to the Soviet official news agency, Farmer Lomakin was then stood up before a firing squad and shot.

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