Five aids in the Interior Commissariat of the autonomous Soviet Republic of Moldavia are on trial for having abused their powers to wreak vengeance on personal enemies, it was revealed here today. They are accused of having lodged false charges of counter-revolution against 10 school instructors whom they had arrested as alleged founder of a “Fascist” Zionist youth organization, spies and plotters of insurrection.
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