Show EX HOBOES NOW RULE RUSSIANS poverty and the tiring firing squad are the weapons that are forcing peasants to bow obediently be before oro the racketeer rulo rule ot of soviet russia that at least Is the story told to loramer hammond well known writer by grandfather Yermo Yer modal dat who had just arrived in this country from russia with his bis wife tour four sons two daughters three in law five grandsons and three granddaughters nineteen in all mr hammond in an article in the currant issue of liberty magazine quotes quotas thus thua the communists have thrown our I 1 land an d and our homes away to a pack of good tor for nothing village loafers who used to be known by such names lis pete the beggar and ivan the drunk they wont work they wont let others work no one who does not cheat and lie ile and waste can hope to get on with the communists they have made all profitable work a crime they have spoiled the schools liI they punish holy worship they are driving the peasants to desperation after the war wo we went to erp ern russia the soil was rich there the wheat grow grew tall crops were good at the end of the fourth harvest we owned three horses and three pairs of at oxen then our troubles began because wb we were able to keep three horses and three pairs of 0 oxen the village communists denounced us as a family of capitalists they called us kulak A kulak to in old russia was waa a wealthy farmer of the land snatching money grubbing mortgage foreclosing type dut but in Mos Alos cows new language at 0 the proletariat this much despised word applies to any peasant who dares work for his own interests there are many independent farmers like ourselves it was not long before this spirit of independence began to frighten the comm community units they shot many the name kulak was signal enough tor for a red army tiring firing squad wo we knew that it IE we stayed in I 1 russia t u SS I 1 a th the a communists would reduce us to the same condition of poverty as that of the boss laki 1 in plain american explains mr li hammond ammond means village bums bum in old russia a kosslak was a barefooted hobo a tramp without shoos shoes from this usage the plural boss laki came to bo be employed as a g general in a ral term of opprobrium denoting ex beggs and other vagrant riffraff of the worst description now the soviet state has dussias Rus sias a agricultural gri cultural population entirely under the th thumb of the grandfather outlined the life of tho the boss laki the official bums in our villages he said they ran everything they were the town constables r the postmasters school com mette emen insurance agent newspaper editors and so on grandfather offered me a picture of gangster rule developed to heights of audacity such as our american teora never have dreamed of at attaining says saya mr air hammond |