The property confiscated from the kulaks in White Russia will be transferred to those collectives which agree to admit Jews from the neighboring small towns as members is the decision of the Communist Party of White Russia. The ruling says “it is important that the impoverished Jews of the small towns be taken into the land collectives. Hence those collectives which take them in will be enriched by the confiscated property of the kulaks.”
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