Word: kolkhozniks
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...people? Behind their own houses [working their private plots]. He had better get tough. It was the middle of August and there was no time to lose. He'd start to comb the upper part of the village, enter each house, and demand to know from each kolkhoznik why he is not working down at the silo. The farm workers' rejoinders, he knew, would be the same as always: 'Let the hay rot. let the peas go to ruin...
...their work. But people will not work for the kolkhoz because they are not well paid. How can I break the circle? Party officials tell me. 'You're not a good leader. Your agitation-educational work is slack.' But how do you propagandize today's kolkhoznik? Without the ruble the agitation doesn't reach him . . . That's the whole question...
...weeks ago a bearded peasant Kolkhoznik in a village near Moscow said to me: 'When are the Germans coming to Russia to restore order?' The conversation was in a little village State-owned store where the peasant had bought several eggs at a ruble apiece. These eggs had been laid by his own chickens, but he was forced to sell them to the State for 20 kopecks apiece and buy them back for a ruble...
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