is no longer the magnate’s, but the collective farmer’s, and similarly, the chief honor at the Reading of the Law goes to the collective farmer.
LARGE NUMBERS STILL WITHOUT VOTE
To illustrate the unsatisfactory methods of the local Soviets and the other State and party organizations in the townships, the commissions draw attention to the large number of people without the vote who are still to be found in the townships, not in any way corresponding to the present social structure of the townships. In Bar, for example, there are 348 persons who still have no vote.
The Vinice Region has a Jewish population of 400,000, as many as the whole of White Russia, and the situation in the Jewish townships there is characteristic not only of the Vinice Region, but of all Ukraine.
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