24 août 1933 - "FAMINE TOLL HEAVY IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA" Walter Duranty NY times 1933, August 24

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NY times 1933, August 24 - FAMINE TOLL HEAVY IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA Walter Duranty

Death Rate During Last Year Has Trebled — Food Supply Now Held Assured. BREAD PRICE EXPLAINED Increase in Moscow Reported as Part of Move to End the Ration System There. FAMINE TOLL HIGH IN SOUTH RUSSIA

MOSCOW, Aug. 23. — The excellent arvest about to be gathered shows that any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. The food shortage which has affected almost the whole population in the last year, and particularly the grain-producing provinces — that is, the Ukraine, North Caucasus, the Lower Volga region — has, however, caused heavy loss of life.

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