The fifteenth anniversary of Lenin’s decree that illiteracy must be abolished is being celebrated here with stories recounting the achievements made in education appearing in the Soviet newspapers.
The stories tell how the Jewish working masses under the Czar numbered many who could neither read nor write, whereas today there remains not a single illiterate in the Jewish national regions in Crimea and the Ukraine.
Many who were illiterate a decade ago now occupy important positions in the government, it is pointed out. In the Jewish townships there are still a few who are unable to read and write, but they are members of the generation which will soon disappear.
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