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The head of the Poltava Provincial Executive Committee received the following declaration:
To the ProvExeCom Head
from pensioner Ms P.M.D.
DECLARATION
Please marry me off to an educated Russian communist with a view to create a famous man for Russia and communism.
[signature]
17/XII 1924
The declaration was forwarded to our newspaper…
While we consider the intention of the declaration commendable, unfortunately we are all extremely overburdened with our present duties… We are about to publish an illustrated journal, the newspaper Red Youth, and The News is expanding too…
There is no time, comrades, to see our own wives for weeks at a time, let alone for ‘a view to create a famous man’…
Our thoughts on the matter are that the spinster’s request should be
