English Translation

58 6 sold, for he got nothing from the collegiates; they enter jedén property without compensation. It was a tragedy that took place in the country of the Soviets. The "Pravda", the central organ of the soviets, reported that until the year I928 only 2 % of the economy was collectivized, in 1929 it was 3 %, and then the peasants gave up resistance. In 1930 about 60 percent, nearly 15 million peasant farms were collectived. The misery grew. Then the peasant flood went down, The slogan was: out of the collectives. With one blow the proportion of collective farms declined to 20 percent. That was the signal for the Soviets to a new general attack, which was carried out with the most rigorous means. The proportion of collective economies rose rapidly to 65 percent; this level lasted for about four years. Then the last forced wave began, so that almost all farmers had lost their independence. Only the farms that lay off the roads kept their own economy. About 60 million people were captured by the collectives. Everywhere, where splintering movements were noticeable, the Jewish People's Commissioner Abraham Heister thoroughly cleaned up.To the cruel terror of the Cheka came the planned plundering of the "apostate" by the legislation; the individual farmer had to deliver from his ground 80 to 100 percent more than the collective farmers. Thus the entire yield of his work was taken away from the individual farmer; every violation, ever desperation, was punished with terrible punishments and always new peasant groups came as "class enemies" the way into the forests and tundres of the north, from which there is no return according to the will of the Soviets. What does it look like in the Soviet economy? For this, some rare examples show that the horse is lined up from behind, that economic and social nothing has been done at all. As the blessing of the collectivization of the "liberated peasantry" looks, the following "successes" show: Livestock status in millions of pieces 1928 1935 1937 Horses 32,5 15,3 about14;5 cattle 9.. 70,5 49.3 " 40 pigs . . ... 260 22.6 " 17 sheep, goats . 146,7 61,1 " 55 adi c d was it with cereals: before the war, the head of the population after deduction of 10 million tons of exports accounted for 420 kg of cereals. In 1936/1937 it was only 250 kg, and in the winter 1932/1933, as.man to obtain foreign currency, another 1.8 million t of cereals exported, 6 million people starved.