Tens of thousands of Jewish evacuees who were moved into the interior of the country when the Germans invaded their towns and cities early in the war are now part of the tremendous land army which is engaged in the third spring plowing since the outbreak of the war, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee announced today.
Reports reaching the Committee from the far-flung republics of central Asia, disclose that Jews from industrial cities, most of whom had never seen a plow or a reaper before, are now experienced agricultural workers – some of them even are Stakhanovites. In Uzbekistan, Turkestan, Turkmenistan and the Bashkirian Republic, thousands of acres have already been planted in wheat and barley by Jewish families from eastern Poland and the western districts of the Soviet Union. In the Moscow region, Jews from Minsk, Bobruisk, Gomel and other cities are working on farms, and many of them have won awards for their achievements.
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