…further,
for hooligans will rob you of your coat & your food & all.”
The other – handsome, determined young Communist, said “ Yes its dangerous. Come and stay with us in our village.”
Communist took me along to a Selsoviet; full of young people, children. One of them belly swollen.
All people say same ”XЛEБА HETУ BCE nyxnoie” (No Bread Here – All are Swollen) [Written phonetically in Russian – & translated later] One woman said:- “We are looking forward to death.”
In one village, all bread had gone two months ago, & potatoes had run out, there was only bypяk (beetroot)
The other – handsome, determined young Communist, said “ Yes its dangerous. Come and stay with us in our village.”
Communist took me along to a Selsoviet; full of young people, children. One of them belly swollen.
All people say same ”XЛEБА HETУ BCE nyxnoie” (No Bread Here – All are Swollen) [Written phonetically in Russian – & translated later] One woman said:- “We are looking forward to death.”
In one village, all bread had gone two months ago, & potatoes had run out, there was only bypяk (beetroot)