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Sentenced to 5 Years for Anti-semitic Acts

March 3, 1929
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A sentence of five years solitary imprisonment and exile from White Russia was imposed upon the Russian worker Volinetz. Volinetz was found guilty of anti-Semitic persecutions.

For persecuting the Jewish family Shur, the Russian artist Federov and his wife received a suspended sentence of one month. Complaint against the light verdict was voiced by the “Comsomolskaya Pravda,” Communist youth organ.

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