Everybody on the track said the same: “Lots of people
dying. Only beetroot. Too weak for spring sowing.
One group: “There are thousands of unemployed. Their
bread
card is taken away and they have nothing. On
April 1st there’ll be another (оқращєнue) cut.
Go down to the Poltava district and there you’ll see hundreds of cottages
empty. In a village of 300 huts only about
100 will
have people living in them & others have died or gone away, but most have died.”