Sunday, February 2, 2014

Sunday, 2 February 1930

Austria:  Socialists and the nationalist heimwehr paramilitary clash in street battles in Eggenberg.  The heimwehr also holds a protest parade in Vienna against high taxes by the socialist-leaning municipal government.

Moscow:  The Council of People’s Commissars issues a decree authorizing local soviet authorities to use “drastic measures” to force Kulaks (wealthy peasants) off their lands, including exile and encouraging poor peasants to “hunt” the Kulaks.  

Paris:  In the case of the disappearance of Alexander Koutiepoff, the young German wife of a Russian employed in a factory near Paris is arrested, consistent with the suspicions rampant in Paris that Koutiepoff’s disappearance (and reported abduction) was the work of Soviet agents in France.

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