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Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 26, Case 519 (interviewer A.P., type A4). Male, 38, Ukrainian, Electro-mechanic repair. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 39. 39
To pump out the last means and then propose
them to enter the Kolkhoz and when the middle peasants started to resist because
they had nothing, he was accused of singing in tune with the kulak and came under
the line of the kulak. This confirmed my opinion about the lie of the government
idea. But, at the same time, a thought appeared.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule B, Vol. 1, Case 131 (interviewer R.F.). Widener Library, Harvard University. page 5. 5
Many kulaks tried to overcome their feelings
of pride in their property; a kulak might have 3 or 4 horses, and when a man would
come to look at his farm, he would say, "Yes, there are 3 horses in my shed, but
this horse belongs to Petrov over there and this one belongs to Ivanov, and only
this one is mine.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 13, Case 159 (interviewer R.F., type A4). Male, 40, Avarets, Tractor driver. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 3. 3
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(1) I was a student until 1929, when I was expelled from school as the
son of a kulak. About a year later, I managed to get work in a
cammery, but in six months I was thrown out of there, too, again
as the son of a kulak.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 26, Case 517 (interviewer A.D., type A4). Male, 38, Great Russian, Electrical engineer. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 18. 18
We three engineers openly talked about it, but what could
we do? About the second kulak, the watchman, many did not know the circumstances.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 14, Case 190 (interviewer A.D./A.P., type A4). Male, 35, Ukrainian, Engineer. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 46. 49
They became richer because they were more economical. How, what is a kulak?
You can look at it from a different point of view. Some indeed were greedy.
If they had not annihilated the kulak as a class they could have made several
gradations.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 26, Case 513 (interviewer M.L., type A4). Male, 40, Ukrainian, Chauffeur-mechanic. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 7. 7
I cannot say exactly, because I am not too well versed in politics, but
in 1935 or '36, I can't remember exactly, the new Stalin Constitution
was issued and there were several points which signified that the sins of
the kulak were forgiven, declared that the kulaks as a class were
liquidated. All people who were poor peasants or kulaks were now considered
the same.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 30, Case 643 (interviewer R.S., type A4). Male, 51, Ukrainian, Fruit-vegetable quality appraiser. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 7. 7
In 1928 we were considered by the government to be
peasants of the middle class. But in 1930 we were considered not kulaks, but
to have supported the kulaks in their amassing of property and wealth. My
wife's family were eliminated as kulaks. We were considered to have supported
the kulaks for two reasons.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 16, Case 319 (interviewer M.F., type A4). Male, 25, Tatar. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 9. 9
EVEN MY OLDER BROTHER COULD
NOT EVEN DRIVE A TRACTOR. MY BROTHER WAS EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL AS
THE SON OF A KULAK.
D) I FELT OFFENDED, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THAT COULD BE DONE.
(2) THEY WANTED ME TO GET EDUCATED AND NOT TO WORK IN THE KOLKHOZE.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 7, Case 96 (interviewer H.B., type A4). Male, 41, Great Russian, Russian Orthodox priest, ex-economist planner. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 42. 43
Of course, you have to hide your social origin.
You would never tell that you were a Kulak or that your father was a
Kulak. After all, everybody was arrested. Nobody was safe. Some sad,
paradox situations occurred. For instance, a group of arrested people
was freed by the Germans.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 8, Case 107 (interviewer A.D., type A4). Female, 57, Great Russian, Peasant, housewife, unskilled worker. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 7. 7
Nobody dared to go anywhere near the statues.
(a) Well, of course, it would. If his father was a kulak, it would be bad;
he would be punished more heavily.
(Suppose you were a party worker?) I don't know. I think he would still
be punished