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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Cossacks Punished | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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