Think will increase of the desire of workers to work.     

            But there have been too many wreckers – too many Kulaks who have been trying to influence the other peasants.

            Breakfasted. Then the sister of wife did algebra lesson.

 

            The Communists realised and admitted that there was no grain.   That there was   Boc??????? in the Black Earth region.  Lower down it was much worse.

Talked to all the people as I tramped along the Railway track. –Ravens and crows (with grey cap)  White expanse of Snow. Moscow- Sebastopol train rattled past with sleeping wagons – poliotdels, party members etc.

 

             Went into village.  "There is no bread. We’ve not had bread for 2 months.   Each Dvor had one or two cows.  Now none.  There are almost no oxen left and the horses have been dying off.”

 

 There was a young worker in the village.  “The unemployed are growing and they’re treated like cattle.

like cattle. They’re told to get away and they get no bread card. They’re cutting down men everywhere. I worked in Kharkov. There they’ve dismissed thousands.

                How can I live? I got a loaf of bread for all my family and I’ve come here for a short time.  There is no food here.  My family is in Kharkoff and don’t know how they’ll live. We are all getting nyxrbin.?

 

                  In this village 5 or 6 Kulaks were sent away to Siberia to cut wood in the Northern forests, also to build railways in Murmansk.

 

                  But some of the Kulaks live better than those who remain in the villages because there is now more bread in the towns.

 

                    In the South 20% of the population have died of hunger,” said a young worker and in some parts 50%. They are murdering us.”

 

                   A lot of factories cannot pay their wages.”Lunched with teacher.  Potato soup, potatoes with a little meat (very little) and kasha