•“…foreign delegations [are] blissfully
ignorant of the hunger,
discontent, opposition, and hatred.”
•“…Donetz Basin, where there has been a
serious breakdown in
food supplies.”
•A miner expressed …“Everybody is going away
from the Donetz Basin,
because there is no food here. There is nothing in Russia. The situation is
terrible.”
•“The present food shortage was attributed by
most Russians to
two causes – the agricultural revolution begun last year and the absence of a free
market... “It is all the fault of this collectivisation, which the
peasants hate.
There is no meat, nothing at all.”