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Recent reports, put out by British news correspondents, have it that Russia is having a famine, and in some parts of the country, a great many are dead from starvation. But according to Walter Duranty, things are not as had as they have been said to be- It is true that there is a food shortage in certain parts of Russia, the Ukraine, North Caucasus, and lower Volga, but this shortage is not enough to cause wholesale deaths from starvation. This food shortage has been caused by mismanagement and corruption on the part of some of the agricultural commissioners, in charge of the collective farming program. The Russian famine propaganda is another of a series of prophesies and statements issued by British writers which later were found to have 110 foundation. It is true, however, that the present Russian condition may become a terrible famine should the grain crop of this year fait Should the weather ruin the grain crop, the Russian Soviet would have a hard time holding its own, but if the crop is as usual, all the present hunger will soon be over,
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Davidson Davidsonian
Davidson, North Carolina, US
Wed, Apr 05, 1933
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