Show peasants P peasants ea hit it at the soviet laws feelings shown in atte attempts apts of greeks and others to leave I 1 moscow the attempts of germans creeks and other minority people res ident in the sov t union to misrule migrate abroad on masse Is one of the lie strangest find least expected consequences of the governments policy toward the jhb peasantry to in some ways it has proved the most embarrassing of those consequences for the soviet lenders the magra alons like the spread of murder and arson against soviet officials are arc un expression of desperate opposition by pert of a section of the peasant population lation to the collectivization policy tind and tile the vigorous methods of grain purchase migrations new problem but whereas violence can be met with ruthless official counter violence the migrations presented a n new puzzling problem moreover these minority peoples naturally aroused tin the sympathy of their blood brothers abroad and gave the problem an international ter political turn the soviet drive against the petter better todo to do peasant house households holIs lilt hit tb the eGer german bannera in siberia the volga region and crimea Crimen especially hard because the general level of prosperity was considerably higher among ulm the same applies to a certain number of greek tobacco planters in ohp caucasus and crimea it Is estimated that some peasants of german origin re recently centIs concentrated near moscow in the hope of leaving the country the ali authora thorl ties blocked the arrival of other thou bands otherwise tile the number have grown to or more this however la Is still an extremely small traction fraction of the total german population in russia which according to the last jost census exceeded the attempted attempt eI migration in other words may ie be taken anken ns as a form of resistance on part of 0 the upper layer of german peasantry seat of Tro trouble tible there was a considerable proportion of poor and middling persons among them yet jet the primary impetus tn anost ost unbiased observers agree anina cioni the so callei called ku kulnis kulaks kuln laks ks or richer peasants peasant i true ty by comparison with american or gernian fart partners ners runny ranny of these richer peasants to do not deserve the designation the economic pulley polley hero here however la Is necessarily based on local rather titan than internal lii In teina terna t iona I 1 co comparisons mpa esons the principal thing which commentators menta tors abroad seem to have over oer looked in this situation Is a that ahel then plight la Is not the result of a special policy against german or other foreign colonists it Is a part and mareel of the entire agrarian policy which lifts certain peasant elements alike whether ther they be russians or germans germa ns or jews I 1 |