SQUALOR AND VICE
REVEALED BY SOVIET CENSUS
DEGRADATION IN FAMILY RELATIONS
LONDON, Jan. 5 The Times’ Riga correspondent says the Soviet nas completed the v.■ : nho census since 1897. Comtures, even in the big towns', where the people suspected the , uthoriLies of attempting a new .political experiment. Many country districts were agitated by a revival of a legend current since Peter the Great organised the first census that an .anti-Christ was numbering die people before the end of the world. The census revealed even in Moscow and Leningrad ail extreme degradation of a great proportion of the population, especially in family illations, and also children’s squalor and vice.
The first figures show that the population and birth rate catastrophically declined after the revolution, but increased again after 1922, with a great drift towards the towns. Moscow’s population is 2.018,000 compared with 1.027,000 in 1920. Leningrad’s is 1,611.000. double that of 1920.—Times.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 5
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151SQUALOR AND VICE Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 5
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