Speaking at the Communist Cunference at Leningrad to-lyy, Comrade Rykolf, President of the Union Council of "People's. Commissaries, referred at length to the danger of a possible b each between towns ard villages throughout Russia owing to the inability of the one to supply the vital needs of the other.
He said that, although the population of Soviet Russia was increasing by 3,000,000 a. year, the cultivated area was less than in 191%, while the average yield was ten per cent. below the standard existing before the War.
The peasants, he added, only sold sufficient grain to cover payment of taxes and were not inclined to provide more as the towns failed to supply the villages with industrial There was, M, Rykolf—stated, acute danger "of an explosion of the entire scheme of industrialization."
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