The Commissariat of Justice was instructed by the Council of People’s Commissars to prepare a bill for the enactment of a special law increasing the penalties to be meted out by the Soviet courts for anti-Semitism in all of its forms and manifestations.
Two anti-Semitic students who were expelled from the University of Voronezh for anti-Semitic act were reinstated.
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