kolkhoznik

The secretary of the Leningrad oblast Communist Party wrote that collective farmers in his region had amassed 21 million rubles for the construction of a tank column named "Leningrad Kolkhoznik." (112) The secretary of the Astrakhan okrug Communist Party wrote that collective farmers, fishermen, and craftsmen had collected 12 million rubles for the construction of air squadrons named "For the Defense of Stalingrad." (113) After Maria Vasil'evna Milavina, a collective farmwoman, told Stalin that she had given her life savings of 2,000 rubles toward the construction of a plane to be named Mother of a Frontline Soldier, she called on all mothers who had sons on the front to hand over their savings.

Organizations of cultural education in the village help party organizations to educate village workers in the communist spirit, develop their culture, mobilize kolkhozniks to meet the plans of the national economy.

(29) His family owned a considerable number of farm animals in 1937, among which were several pigs, which seems out of the question for average kolkhozniks at that time.

Happy Estonians building the Baikal Amur highway, wholesome Polish plumbers, tanned Lithuanian kolkhozniks bringing in the sheaves somehow lulled people into believing it was "an alternative," a different way to do things toward which we too would move in some kind of Utopian convergence.

One of the kolkhozniks says: "Comrade Leader, I spent the whole day yesterday walking around the city, and I didn't see any of the things you're talking about."

(38) Figures disclosed in the 1960s showed that the kolkhozniks as a whole did not even exceed the statutory limits in any regard.