Word: kopek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the harvest season, but one of the farm's tractor drivers shows up drunk and the other is stuck in a ditch; villagers are lolling about in the community bath houses instead of working the fields; for five months they have not received a single kopek of advance wages because there has been no money to distribute...
...Seven young girls, just out of school, and they are the ones who really are holding the whole kolkhoz together. Each kopek is milked by their hands, and getting more milkmaids is one of his biggest headaches. The old women can't build a modern kolkhoz; that's why he had to argue for weeks to break down the resistance of schoolgirls. And then, if the girl was ready to sign up, her mother would hit the roof. 'What? My daughter muck around in the manure! Is that why my husband and I sweated our guts...
...been in the fields all summer and what did I get for it? My children will be going to school soon, and they have no shoes or clothes. We go to pick mushrooms because we can sell them at the store and bring in a kopek or two at home.' Added another woman sarcastically. 'We don't have to eat at all. I suppose. This is my second year without a cow and it's been pretty...