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Russia was startled last week by an even more harrowing case of Pioneer peaching. Some months ago in the village of Fadeevka, 14-year-old Pioneer Mischa Dyakov peached on his parents for grain stealing, confidently expected to be the hero of their trial. But so backward was the local Soviet court that both parents were acquitted. Last week their second son,11-year-old Vanya, peached on them not for grain stealing but for murder. "My brother Mischa didn't just disappear after my parents were acquitted. They killed him!" testified the dauntless Pioneer. Resolved to make an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Peaching Pioneers | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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