RUSSIA: Cossacks Punished

If 46,000 citizens of Florida had been ordered to grow & deliver to the U. S. Government a certain number of oranges; if they failed to do so; and if they were punished by being shipped in freight cars from Florida to Alaska, their fate would be no harder than was that of 46,000 Cossacks last week in Russia.

Dwelling, as their forbears have dwelt for centuries in the fertile, balmy Kuban adjoining the Black Sea, the 46,000 Cossacks farmed a rich area around four towns: Poltavskaya, Medvyedevsky, Urupskaya, Umanskaya. They may or...

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