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Gareth Jones Diary Notes relating to Soviet Ukraine Famine 1932-33
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Excerpt from Gareth's Diary relating to the Soviet Famine of 21st March 1933
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TRANSCRIPTION OF DIARY NOTES
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Heddyw,
21st , allan gyda cheffyl, [Today I
went out with a horse.]
The
suburbs of Moscow are in a disgraceful condition.
The wonderful houses so much admired 2 or 3 years ago now look shabby and
look broken down. Very pale and ill
looking people.
New
factories going up . Went past Nepht
gas factory.
Stopped
to talk to a peasant. "Terrible.
We have no bread. We have to go all the way to Moscow to get bread and then
they give us two kilos and we have to pay 3 rubles a kilo. How can a poor man do
that ?.
We have no potatoes left.
[BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT OF PHOTO ABOVE]
The
cattle has nearly all died. The horses
also.
I
joined the Kolhkoz 3 weeks ago…
"They made us pay so many taxes that life
became a burden"
Woman came out and started crying. " They’re killing us. In my village there used to be 300 cows and now we only have 30. The horses have died. How can I feed us all? "
Man:
"I have a family of 10 people. How
can they live?"
Woman :
"And the kulaks Look at
what they call kulaks. Just
ordinary peasants who have a cow or two. They’re
murdering the peasants, sending them away.
Oppression – oppression – oppression!"
They
said : "How can the harvest be good? We haven’t horses and they don’t give us enough to eat."
Went
on a bit further and spoke to a girl, 19 and a man 18 years old. Both said : "We have nothing.
If it were not for Moscow we would starve. No Potatoes left.
[END OF TRANSCRIPT OF PHOTO]. It is terrible.
We have never had it so bad."
People
I spoke to repeated this repeated this all along the way.
Winter
sowing (rye) very bad. This
region mainly vegetables. Spring
sowing and planting will be bad.
"There
is little seed" - one village No
seed next village.
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