Word: kolkhozes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...
...Ivestia, another: "The Tarangul Motor Tractor Station began its work in the fields about half a month later than last year . . . Not a single furrow has been made in our kolkhoz. The director of our MTS, Comrade Petrov, forgot to give even one single plow to our brigade...
...slaughtering or abandoning half of Russia's cattle (30 out of 70 million), half its hogs (12 out of 26 million), one-third of its sheep. In the famine that followed (1931-33), millions more peasants died of hunger; and millions of those who remained were driven into kolkhozes (collective farms), subjected to the law of Aug. 7, 1932: "Death by shooting for any theft from the sacred and inviolable property of the kolkhoz...
First, he smashed the links by merging them into huge (80 to 150 men) agricultural brigades, bossed by the commissars. Pravda described one brigade at work on the Lenin's Memory kolkhoz: "The brigade women pick the potatoes dug up by machines driven by the men . . . They are followed by supervisors from the party cells who mark down the efficiency of each worker...
...dances with grace and precision. The six or seven minutes of Ulanova are outstandingly beautiful. But on the whole, the cameraman had difficultly in cropping action and maintaining dramatic pitch through the transitions. Especially disturbing are the frequent switches to the audience, who talk with mock enthusiasm about their kolkhoz anniversary. In spite of obvious propaganda, however, creative portrayals of the romantic, tsarist era are not re-tuned for soviet cars...