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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.