Word: szczygiel
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...Communists began to take a bigger share of the farm's produce. There were interminable, time-consuming party discussions, but little fertilizer, no tractors. Because they had collaborated with the Communists, the farmers of Victoria were ostracized by their neighbors. "They called us Soviet pigs," says Zofia Szczygiel, president of the Victoria collective...
...last October the quiet revolution came to Morawice. The people of the village heard newly appointed Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka say on the radio that no more money would be spent subsidizing collectives. Says Zofia Szczygiel: "Everybody out in the fields threw down their tools and went home for a drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...
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