Two soldiers came
and they asked heaps of questions. The bourgeoisie were crushing the
working classes in England. They shot down demonstrations. Communists
sat in prisons and England was going to declare war on Russia.
They had
come to arrest a peasant thief who had killed another. The thief had gone
to steal potatoes from the hut of the other. The owner of the hut had
come out and the peasant had stabbed her with a knife. There were many
cases of that happening.
The Red
Army soldier who came also said: “Don’t travel by night. There are many
wild uncultured men who want food and to steal.”
Went to bed
late, slept on floor. In one bed president, his wife and her sister in
small bed of child.
Woke up
next morning before eight. The Communist leader of the next Kolkhoz was
there. Keen rev:. “We’ve difficulties but they have to be overcome.
“There is seed in this
village. Cattle decrease is disastrous. There used to be 200
cattle. Now 6 horses and cattle down by tremendous amount.” The New
Tax, the Communists