Word: kuban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile at Odessa, several thousand of Stalin's most industriously toiling "Stakhanovite" workers (TIME, Dec. 16) were accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
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 may not have tried to grow & deliver as much grain as the Five-Year Planners thought they should. Last week with no exception every Cossack man, woman and child in the area was bundled off "to work near the Arctic Circle" in unspecified mines and lumber camps...
...mention of this mass punishment appeared in Moscow newspapers. Details reached Russians and foreign correspondents in the Capital only with the arrival of newspapers from Rostov-on-the-Don, largest city in the Kuban. Tass, the Soviet official news agency, carried not a line. According to Rostov editors the lands, homes and property of the 46.000 "socially undesirable" Cossacks were distributed, as soon as they were shipped off, among "loyal proletarians" and Red Army veterans...
Four days later in the Kuban village of Labinskaya, zealous Soviet police arrested Assassin Gorgulov's 82-year-old mother and also his aunt, charged them with "stealing grain from a collective farm," the penalty for which is Death. Moscow papers seemed displeased by the Kuban policemen's zeal, took the line that an 82-year-old grain thief should not be put to Death. They hinted that even if Dr. Gorgulov's mother & aunt are convicted their sentences will surely be commuted...