Pravda, organ of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia, reports that large numbers of Jewish voters were not entered in the electoral lists for election of local soviets in Eastern Galicia because of the anti-Semitic attitude of minor local officials. The paper referred particularly to the Drobobyez constituency.
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