Pravda, Communist Party organ, admits that “the question of equality of rights of national minorities” has become acute in Soviet-occupied Poland and that the issue is of “practical importance.”
A special correspondent reports that a speech in Yiddish at a women’s Communis meeting in Lwow created an uproar when five Polish women protested, demanding that the address be made in Polish. “But the five protesting women received a lesson in equality of rights of nationalities in Soviet Russia when, after the speech in Yiddish, which was translated, other women addressed the meeting in their native languages,” the Pravda dispatch states.
“The women who protested against Yiddish knew about the Soviet Constitution granting equality to all nationalities; yet in practice they were moved by other feelings. The domination of capitalist exploiters has been abolished, but human nature still remains the same.”
Pravda also reports that of 1,347 schools in the Western Ukraine only 20 are Jewish.
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