Gareth Jones
[bas relief by Oleh Lesiuk]
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Gareth Jones' Diary Notes as referenced in 'Assignment in Utopia' by Eugene Lyons.
In 1937, Eugene Lyons referenced Gareth Jones' diaries on page 575 in his chapter entitled; 'The Press Corps Conceals a Famine'. He described Gareth as thus:
An earnest and meticulous little man, Gareth Jones was the sort who carries a note-book and unashamedly records your words as you talk. Patiently he went from one correspondent to the next, asking questions and writing down the answers.
[To read the full famine chapter from Assignment in Utopia by Lyons please CLICK HERE.]
Below is the corresponding page & transcription from Gareth's 7th March 1933 diary entry with the notes about new taxes and extension of Soviet force, taken at his interview with Eugene Lyons:
Eugene Lyons
Electricity – the figures are of a potential capacity. In Kiev , there's an electric light plant, but no fuel has arrived.
Peasants
New Tax average 2 1;/2 Centers of grain per Hectare (about 15 Poods).
Average grain production would not be much more than twice that.
It's a stiff tax after paying that and other taxes, they'll be lucky
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if they have enough to live on.
Free market after tax is paid is academic. New name for old system.
Last Six Months
Extension of Force
1) Politodel making 9000 new G.P.U. stationed in villages.
2) Passport System
3) Extraordinary commissars in from the regions with punitive powers & right to enforce labour.
4) Disciplinary measures in factories.
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… depriving workers of [bread] cards for one day's absence.
5) Death penalties for stealing. Measures for defence of Socialist Property.
6) Extension of police power in state, extension of use of whip.
New political policy of force.
Party
The fiction that the Party is not Government has disappeared. Force has come out into the open. Formerly the Government and the Party issued decrees separately. Division has disappeared.
Serfdom for the Peasant.
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