Only four out of a thousand Jewish colonists can be considered kulaks, an investigation by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency shows. Nevertheless the Jewish Communist press continues bitterly to instigate the anti-kulak campaign among the Jewish peasants. A poor peasant was found killed today in the Kertch region and the “Emes,” organ of the Jewish Communists, says he was murdered by Jewish kulaks in revenge for the anti-kulak fight. In the Theodosia region the chairman of the village soviet was injured and the “Emes” declares he was fired on by Jewish kulaks.
In Larindoff, Crimea, a Jewish colonist, Abraham Smugin, has been exiled and his property confiscated while the Sholem Aleichem Kalinindorf colonies at a meeting decided to exile several Jewish families and to confiscate their property as kulaks. In the Odessa region, the property of a number of Jewish families in the colony Freiheit has been confiscated because they agitated against joining the collectives. Confiscation of property is also reported from collectives in the neighborhood of Berditchev, Zhitomir and Shepetovka, where Jewish collective hop plantations exist.
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