Speakers at the first teachers’ conference in Lwow, Soviet-occupied Poland, joined today in unrestrained attacks on the “abominable remnants of Ukrainian nationalists, Jewish Socialists, Zionists, priests and rabbis.” Soviet Education Commissar Redko attended the conference.
The speakers accused rabbis and Jewish nationalists of attempting to discredit Soviet education. They urged that the entire educational system be imbued with communist spirit and pointed out that more than 1,000 Soviet schools have been functioning in the Lwow district since Dec. 1, 1939.
Meanwhile, President Mikhail Kalinin has issued a special decree awarding the Order of the Red Banner to two Jewish physicians, Isaac Josefovitch Rogosin and Vladimir Jacobovitch Edelman, for outstanding medical services, and also a medal “for excellent work” to the producer, Miss Rose Alexadrovna Brainin.
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