Detroit evening times., 1946-01-22
NATHAN ID. SHAPIRO.
so Court Street, Brooklyn, 2, n. Y.
Jan. IL, 1916.

Ian ~ 1915
CONSUMERS GUIDE,
WASHINGTON, 25, D. c.
GENTLEMEN
TT SEEMS to me that Consumers Guide published at
the governments expense should contain infor-
nation for the consumer and less communistic propa-
ganda.
Your issue of December, I945, deUotes nine col
umns three pages to a gtorifcation of the col
iecfiUe farming system in Soviet Russia.
am afraid that you and your informant DR.. Charles
E. Kellog-an American soil expert who, with the aid of
interpreter, permitted to visit certain places
in Russia-know more about collective farming in
Soviet Russia than you he knows about wages, pro-
dueton standard of living factories, elections demobi
zaton the trial of political defendants, for that
matter anything concerning its political military and
economic matters.
All he obviously permitted to do to dig
his spade into the soil number Of places and
cept feW lOeL chosen photographs presented to him
by the Communist publicity department.
TNHERE is an mpenetrable curtain around everything
l. that goes on in Russia; and for obvious reasons
However, through leaks, admissions by informed
Communists and reports by those who permitted
leave Russia have learned that all farms taken
from their true without any compensation and
those who objected to the conscaton refused
operate the farms slaves just slaughtered
cold blood That is the history of their socaled col
ective farming"
We also know that the Soviet system of compelling
the collective farmer to give up practically all that he
produced responsible 1881 and 1882 for his refusal
to produce and the resulting death by starvation of
millions of Russians.
Because the happy collective farmer is dissatisfied
with his chains, he is disrusted by his government
- The Russian peasant is treated than
the Russian factory worker.
Many of us know tOhat "Worker's CARD means
in Russia.
The peasant is not eUen considered a member of
the proietariat.
WHY United States publication should devote nine
w columns to the praise of slave farming under
dictatorship is very difficult for many Americans to
understand.
l assume that before long some "totalarian liberal"
connected with other government publication will
tell how wonderful the elections in Russia be-
cause their elections free from electoneerng
paigns, political discussions we'll as opponents
We may also hear pretty soon from some govern
ment publication about the ree speech and free press
in Russia although American reporter or consul is
permitted to travel freely through Russia and nowth
viduals in Russia may printing press printing ink
type or paper q
WAS always shocked to hear of concentration camps
there millions today in Russia although candidates
are elected" there by unanimous votes
/ trust that Communistic propaganda will not De
repeated in your publication.
Many of the young and gulble fall for it altogether
too often.
1t could be FUSED" by our Communist fronts" as
"officia news"
Should you run out of information for con-
su,ers, it Uoud be better to discontinue your seruice
than to indulge in foreign ideologic propaganda of
any description
Yours very truly,