IZVESTIA

It is an indisputable fact, that while the commanding heights in the provincial districts and municipal centers have been conquered by the Communist party, the rural Soviets continue to flounder in the swamps of non-partisanship.... We are menaced by the non-partisan wealthy peasantry who have acquired a powerful influence in the rural districts and in some places hold the entire lower Soviet machinery.

It is an indisputable fact, that while the commanding heights in the provincial districts and municipal centers have been conquered by the Communist party, the rural Soviets continue to flounder in the swamps of non-partisanship.... We are menaced by the non-partisan wealthy peasantry who have acquired a powerful influence in the rural districts and in some places hold the entire lower Soviet machinery.