STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (poškozeno) Page 40 · 40 of 81
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (damaged)
English Translation
- 9 - and the large farmers preferred to maintain their own farms and to manage them for themselves alone. The Soviet government decided, moreover, that the decline in agricultural products would lead to the impoverishment of the peasants with terror in the collective farms and force them to achieve higher performance. The peasantry had to bear the main burden of the Bolshevik experiment, especially the industrialization of the country economically. The nationalized Kolchosland is handed over to the collective farm from the state to "eternal" use. The total amount of production (such as buildings, dead and living inventory, etc.) is officially owned by Kolchos, but is supervised by the state as a social property and ultimately managed by the government. e management is carried out on a collective basis, i.e. jointly by all members of Kolchoses. Every collective farmer, that is every member of a collective farm, should have some gardening or highlands for personal use - not even as property - on which he is to operate gemiss, potato and fodder production within the framework of a secondary farm. The Community's work in the field of collective farming is to be carried out first and foremost and the management of the individual gardening land is to take place only on the sidelines of free time. In practice, it is precisely a reverse development, the causes of which are very obvious. It is psychologically understandable and lies in the mentality of the farmer that he has, above all, an interest in the management of the land which, although not in his possession, is left to him for personal use, although it is still so small.