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Show mmm mm m$m dsto GREAT Mil ? IIORUD IS DECREED Deportations to Make Room ' for Loyal Servants of Soviet FACE ROUGH EMPLOYMENT Transplanted People to Pre pare New 5-Year Plan " . ' - J ir rttht. IWJt , -. Sr Ualu Tnmi MOSCOW. Jan. It Soviet Russia has banished to the frozen nortlx the entire population of three southern villages as exemplary punishment for failure to cooperate) wltn the gov. ernment's program of ineresaed agricultural ag-ricultural production. Tha order for thlf wholesale dea portation applies to every man, wo man and child In an area which, according ac-cording to tha 12 census, haa a pop. ulation of 43,000. Tha Cossack villages involved ara Poltavsksya, Medvved. vi ky and Urupskajra in tha Kuban region along tha Black lea. Their land will be given to piM bera of tha red army, to war vet. erans and other loyal elements, who will be instructed to transform tha region into a model, completely so vietlzed productive district Tha extreme action of authoritlea in tha Kuban region, which waa not even recorded in tha Moacow press, apparently wss in line with the recent re-cent decree which went into effect on Sunday in Moacow and other large cities, designed to effect an enforced shifting of surplus urban population to the soiL SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN By system of Identification paper and passports, thousands of "socially undesirable" fsmiltes, and those suspected sus-pected of fsllure to fit Into the soviet regime, will be forced into Siberia, where their labor will be useful to the raw production phages of tha second sec-ond five-year plan, rather than tha industrial. They wilt bo put to work on farmg and in mining and lunmbertng districts. dis-tricts. The thousands of peassnta who poured into tha cities to escspe the, collectlvizstion system of farming, will be driven back to the land. For. mer landowners, merchsnts, priests, aristocrats and other "intellectuals already have been pouring out of the cities, hoping to find refuge in smaller towns before they ara caught In tha web of the decree. The migration from Kuban, how ever, la the only such drastie msse, movement yet recorded. It wsa rt vealed by the press of Rotov, the nearest metropolis to the norih. whirn. fiubllshed with apparent satisfaction, ocal eommuniNt nxrty decrees exiling the entire pupuU.un. Tha Rostov papers fisiled the decrees de-crees as ealutsry wsming to other recalcitrant villages. No specific reasons rea-sons for the order were given, although al-though tha papers rehashed old atrocity atroc-ity stories of 12 years age, when the Cossacks In the settlements Involved ' were accused of mistreating mem- bars of the red army during the civil wars. ' ' |