Show peasants PI a s anc ancs s hit at the sov soviet let laws feelings shown in attempts of greeks and others to leave moscow the attempts of germans creeks and other tier minority people res merit in hie file soy kov t union to migrate aarond en masse Is one of the file strongest strangest and least elpe expected fed consequences of hie flip governments government s aggressive policy toward the peasantry h in some ways it lins proved the lie most anili of those tor the soviet leaders the bilgin eions like illie the alie spread ot murder an and arson against soviet ollic lids are tin an express loa of desperate opposition by part of it 11 section of the peasant to the collectivization policy anil and the vigorous met methods of grain purchase migrations new problem nut but whereas violence can be met with avith ruthless official counter violence the migrations presented a new mill and puzzling problem Alo moreover rover those these minority peoples naturally aroused the ay input pithy liy of their blood brothers abroad and pave gaye the problem nn an international ter national political turn the soviet drive against ngali the better todo to do peasant households lilt the german farmers in siberia the volga region and almen especially hard because the general level of prosperity was considerably higher among them the same saine applies to it a certain number of greek tobacco planters in ohp caucasus and crimea it Is estimated estimate that some peasants of Sen Geri nhit origin recently concentrated near moscow in the hope of leaving tho the country the ties aloi ked the arrival of other thousands sin ds otherwise the number might hive have grown to or more tills this however Is still an extremely small fraction of the total german population in russia which according to th lust dinst census elcee exceeded ded 1000 ahe the attempted migration in other words may 1 e taken as a form of resistance on part of the upper tipper layer of G german erinn peasantry seat scat of trouble there wits was a consides consi dei able proportion cf poor ind and middling persons among them yet the primary impetus roost most unbiased observers agree came from the so called kuln tig 11 or richer peasants true by comparison with american or german fa farmers many of these richer peasants 10 lo do it nut it deserve the designation the economic pulley policy liere here however Is necessarily bused based on local rather than international comparisons the principal thing valli ii corn com men abroad seem to have overlooked in this german situa situation Is that their plight Is not the result of a special policy against german or other foreign colonists it Is part and parcel nf the entire agrarian policy which hits certain pe sant elements alike whether they be russians or germans or jews |