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Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Schedule B, Vol. 10, Case 67 (interviewer A.D.). Widener Library, Harvard University. page 1. 1

Time and again they picked old man to be chairman of collectives; nobody would wish to take revenge on them; or else they picked odd characters (chudaki) as starosty. Rarely a former kulak became head of the villages. Elections of villages elders varied: usually not everybody went to the elections - for instance, 150 out of 800 people would show up; there were very few males in the villages anyway, what with the prisoners of war, the Red Army, and the partisans.