Word: kulak
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...really very little developed, but yearn to dress more fashionably, to wear hats, even smoking jackets, and to use eau de cologne. . . . But by themselves and from inside themselves they are not cultured. Such appears to me to be the culture of the German burgher or kulak. This is a purely external culture, an empty one, not grasping the depths of the human soul...
...kulak was a peasant who owned three cows or more...
...story is simple. A tow-blonde peasant girl (Marina Ladynina) from the forests of far-northern Russia visits the great summer fair at Moscow. There she falls in love with an impassioned young shepherd (Vladimir Zeldin) from the mountains of far-southern Russia. He is proud as a kulak because of his prize sheep. Boy & girl sing at each other enthusiastically, retire to their respective corners of Russia eager for a return bout next summer. In dead of winter, in the foggy mountain rains, the shepherd rescues three lost ladylike ewes from three wolves; his sweetheart delivers her favorite...
...time the Germans come until the Red Army drives them out. When the Germans dashed into the Ukrainian village, three of them at once raped Malasha, the "leading collective worker" and wife of a Red Army soldier. The Nazi captain, Kurt Werner, made a quisling out of an embittered kulak (prosperous peasant) whose property had been turned into a collective farm. As his mistress, Captain Werner took another quisling, a pretty little brunette named Pussy, the wife of a Russian soldier. Then he set about trying to worm out the village's secrets-the whereabouts of the local guerrillas...
City children were drafted for farm work. Komsomol boys & girls mobilized for tree cutting to replenish the lost coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...