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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 4. 4

Two of the sons were married; the youngest lived with me until he was drafted into the Army in 1939; the elder sons weren't taken into the army because we were kulaks. After the youngest left. I got a job in a restaurant. (How did you get it?) Through a friend, who worked there. (Was it a temporary or a permanent job?)

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 4, Case 42 (interviewer M.F., type A3). Male, 42, Great Russian, Army officer. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 3. 3

(2) I could not be a party member, since my father and my mother were Kulaks and died in a concentration camp. (Further probing on (2) could not apply) (3) My superior was a colonel, and he was a party man.

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 28, Case 535 (interviewer A.P./J.O., type A4). Male, 37, Ukrainian, Financial inspector. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 22. 22

My father sat in prison for one year, then he was freed. He was not a kulag. The Soviet government liouidated many kulaks. They took my father in prison so that the other peasants would see him as an example, and would join the kolkhoz. For even the poorer peasants did not want to enter the kolkhoz.

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 9, Case 111 (interviewer J.B., type A4). Male, 30, Great Russian, School teacher. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 34. 37

Everybody who had lived well under the Tsar, were harded into the square and called Kulaks. Many Estonians lived in the town too, and they were all taken into the square. Their names were recorded, and they were all sent to Kazakhstan.

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 14, Case 275 (interviewer F.W., type A4). Female, 54, Great Russian, Kolkhoznik worker. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 43. 43

You can be a good man, but if some uncle somewhere said something then you can't get ahead. But if your parents were poor and none of your relatives were kulaks and you don't have any relatives abroad, then you can get ahead. (13) Of course he did right, if he stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

 

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 46. 46

Most people are not guilty when they are in court. Then the question of the kulaks: undoubtedly there has been terror. Of course, a part of the peasantry had to suffer for their ignorance, for their cruelty, and backwardness - but there was no reason to persecute them the way they were.

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule B, Vol. 1, Case 131 (interviewer R.F.). Widener Library, Harvard University. page 6. 6

The attack was made not only on the well-to-do peasants but on the private traders and proprietors in the cities. Hundreds of thousands of kulaks were arrested and exiled. Store owners had their stores closed and the lucky ones got to be bookkeepers in some government store, while the rest were sent to jail.

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 5, Case 54 (interviewer M.F., type A3). Male, 57, Cossack, Peasant. Widener Library, Harvard University. page 30. 30

All guards were people who for one reason or another (but not political) had been emprisoned. All former Kulaks, White Guards etc. were not put on any of these duties. There were certain

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule A, Vol. 31, Case 415/(NY)1035 (interviewer A.S., type A4). Male, 37, Great Russian, Aviation mechanic (flyer). Widener Library, Harvard University. page 10. 10

The only difference would be that he would not suffer for the act of his son. Of course, if the parents of the boy were ex-kulaks or, in general, of the wrong social background, they would be exiled from the town or arrested. In general, I think this question makes very little sense, because such a case as this would never happen in the Soviet Union; the youth would know what they were going to get for this type of sacrilege

 

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule B, Vol. 8, Case 354 (interviewer J.R.). Widener Library, Harvard University. page 3. 3

No. 354 JR HARVARD UNIVERSITY REFUGEE INTERVIEW PROJECT 3 Nationalities Schedule - B5 Dachko sent troops into the Baksan region and himself arrived in Nal'chik with his staff. Dechko wanted to arrest 20,000 of the rebels - kulaks, millahs, etc. The quotas of persons to be arrested were established for each village. I was arrested later, but until then I hid in the woods with several others.