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...indicted for arson and perjury in connection with another burning of his church, was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...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 by the Fists* in their fierce opposition against all measures undertaken by our Communist Party and our Soviet Government. . . . Murderous attacks have been perpetrated against Communist village school teachers and social workers, women as well as men. . . . Seven murders and four attempted murders took place in public assemblies or in Soviet bureaus. The roll of our Communist dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Reasons for Arson, Murder. One essential fact is the key to understanding of the present days of wrath between Agrarians and Proletarians in Russia. The fact is that Dictator Stalin is straining and perhaps overtaxing the resources of the country to get money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...sending Communist instructors to coach small farmers in methods for increasing the yield of their arms. Naturally this procedure threatened to undermine the locally monopolistic position of the Kulaks and tended to force down still further the price at which the State could compel producers to sell grain. The arson and murder of last week are very largely explained by the despair of the Kulaks at this new situation. They burnt fields and barns of State-grown grain. They murdered Communist workers who were teaching the peasants and proletarians-turned-farmers to grow bigger crops. Naturally their fury grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as-burglary-arson-murder-THEFT-etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras-as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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