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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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On Children's Day, the Soviet press, via Pravda, contrasts happy lives of children in the USSR with alleged dreadful treatment in the US, including black market sales, starvation, and child labor in plantations and mines.
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MOSCOW. (P)--The Soviet press, declaring "Children's Day," said today children live happy, carefree lives in the Soviet Union -and are treated dreadfully in the United States.
Pravda said 15,000 children were sold on the American black market every year and untold thousands were starving to death.
It said that in the United States 5-year-olds were breaking their backs working on plantations. 10-year-olds suffocating in coal mines, and children of all ages living on scraps picked out of garbage cans.
"Our own Soviet state," said the Communist Party organ, "comforts our children with great warmth and care that do not exist in any capitalist country."
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The Soviet press, declaring "Children's Day," said children live happy, carefree lives in the Soviet Union and are treated dreadfully in the United States. Pravda said 15,000 children were sold on the American black market every year and untold thousands were starving to death. It said that in the United States 5-year-olds were breaking their backs working on plantations, 10-year-olds suffocating in coal mines, and children of all ages living on scraps picked out of garbage cans. "Our own Soviet state," said the Communist Party organ, "comforts our children with great warmth and care that do not exist in any capitalist country."