Word: kolkhozes
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...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...
...Russians produced a Folies Bergere, it might look like Grand Concert. Although the actors are fully clothed and there is hardly any comedy, the spectacle includes grand opera, ballet, folk dancing, and scenes of joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...
...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...
...seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...