Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...
...Ukrainian peasant is a tough nut to crack. At a time when they could least be spared from the western front, 500,000 soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary were needed to keep the Ukraine in order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...
...Allied victory automatically nullified the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and the Ukrainian Republic, after a feeble struggle, folded up to become again a part of Russia. Ten years later Joseph Stalin, starting his collective-farming program, also found the Ukrainian peasant a stubborn creature. Confronted with similar sabotage, the Stalin Government simply confiscated the Ukrainian grain, left the peasants to starve. Some 3,000,000 of them...
...bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance. It was so, what shall I say, middle class-and I am the son of a peasant." As for his own people: "We are tough...
...peasants, of course, are worsted, and the novel ends in a gush of bloodshed. A dying peasant gazes at a map. "So large a country," he says. "And there in the middle of it, like a heart, is Madrid. But our Tenorio Viejo is not marked. I have often looked for it. It is not there, though. It is too small, I suppose. We have lived in a very small place, Diego...