Municipalization of privately built dwellings will henceforth be impossible without the sanction of the executive of the Central Executive Committee for each individual case. This innovation concerns several thousands former Jewish merchants who as lishentzy (people without rights) were expelled from their homes and privately built dwellings, especially in the vicinity of Moscow, by the local soviets. Under no consideration will these circumstances be repeated without the Central Executive Committee’s approval, it was decided today.
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