Riga, Jan. 28.
AM. Stalin, chairman of the Soviet Central Executive Committee, has issued a statement to the effect that thes present Soviet Communist policy ig a resumption of rigorous militant Communism against the "capitalist elements" in the Soviet villages and a rejection of the "tolerant policy prevalent until last year." He says that the immediate object is the extermination of the entire Kulak class (that is peasant household owning three cows or their equivalent in other livestock) by depriving them of the right to cultivate the soil.
The statement says that, comrades must direct their blows aggressively in accordance. with the Party's changed attitude—Reuter.
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