Michael Braunstein, whose name occurs in the act of indictment of the Moscow trial as having visited Russia on behalf of the Menshevik Organisation abroad, in the same way as it accuses Raphael Abramovitch, who denies that he has been in Russia since 1920, is now imprisoned in the chief G.P.U. gaol in Moscow, the J.T.A. here learns, Abramovitch did not go to Soviet Russia in 1929, as the act of indictment alleges, but Braunstoin went and was arrested by the G.P.U. on the Soviet border. About a dozon other Jews, ex- Bundists and ex-Mensheviks were arrested with Braunstein, all of them being still in the cus tody of the G.P.U.
It is believed in many circles here that Professor Rubin, who is accused of having been the theoretician of the Menshevik movement in Soviet Russia, is being charged only because he is Abramovitch’s brother-in-law.
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