Fifty Jewish families have been expelled from the land collective in the suburb of Zolotonosha, Ukrainia, as ex-traders, ex-members of the clergy and undesirables. A number of families have been expelled from a collective in Colony Number 109, Jankoy region, for the same reason. There are now 75 Jewish families instead of 125 in the Zolotonosha collective, notwithstanding the fact that the Jews there have not resisted the collectivization process.
Despite this, the organ of the Moscow Jewish Communists, “Emes,” is busy stirring up trouble by speaking of “excesses” in the Jewish colonies, allegedly organized by the Jewish kulaks, and urges everyone not to believe that there are no kulaks in the Jewish colonies. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns reliably that no excesses have occurred in the Jewish colonies, and even the “Emes” is unable to give the names of the colonies where the alleged excesses it speaks about are supposed to have occurred.
The “Emes” further says “the local Soviets claim that there are no kulaks among the Jewish colonists, since only poor Jews were settled on the land and that they therefore practice mercy. But we must liquidate this nationalistic policy of mercy of the local Soviet leaders.”
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