Word: zadruga
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Near Stara Pazova I came upon an old peasant leaning over a fence and talking to a hog. Through my interpreter, I asked him why he hadn't joined the local zadruga (cooperative). He stared at me for a long time. Then he reached down with a long-fingered hand and picked up a piece of his soil, black...
...economic grounds. One, whose opinion was confirmed to me from other sources, said: "Of course, no man will work collective land as well as his own land, however well he is paid. Come back here in the summer. Drive down a road bordered on one side by a zadruga, and on the other by private land. You will immedi ately know which is which. Just try and count the weeds on the collectivized land...
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