The removal of two plays entitled “Bribery” and “Destructive Element” performed at the Leningrad theatre, Satire, was demanded by the “Krasnaya Gazetta,” Leningrad Communist organ.
The paper denounces the two plays for propagating anti-Semitism. In them Jews are represented as Nepmen and called swindlers and bribers. Russians are represented as exploited and repressed.
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