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...million peasants-about half the Soviet population. Tied to kolkhozes (collective farms), which they work as sharecroppers. Russia's muzhiks live in wooden and sod huts, eat the black bread of the poor, provide the Red army with its masses of infantrymen...
...hours they were kept there. Finally, at 3:30 in the afternoon (the time was verified later from several smashed watches), two red flares arched skyward from the village below. At that signal, concealed machine guns opened up. A few minutes later, 1.200 men and boys lay on the sod in grotesque, moaning clumps. Soldiers moved professionally among them, silencing the moans with machine pistols. Some how, five pretended death successfully. All the rest - the mayor, the priest, the doctor, all the able hands and strong backs of the village, were dead...
...MALONE Indianapolis Sod's Country...
...them across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave. Grey Eagle went contentedly back to his sod hut amid an outraged clamor from North Dakota...
...expedition explored a 40 by 60 feet house mound in which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...