Show Same Milk Mill From Fewer Cows Barber Tells o of Life Behind Iron Curtain B By David M M. Nichol BREMEN IEN Germany The barber was agitated and waved his razor in an alarming fash fash- ion c My IY bro brother broth broth- h- h cr er he said with sweeping t. t gestures insists in u insists n- n L. L that of peo- peo I f pie in eastern G Germany e r man y t there ere will be r t JG Jf partisans partisans partisans par- par o if the flit oJ Russians ever Mr Nichol start a new warThe warThe war The uThe rest he said after a moments moment's pause are chil chIl- dren All this arose from a simple question about how things were going in Bremen getting better the barber said and if people really knew how they were in eastern Germany they wouldn't grumble so much here Hand First Experience It became obvious as the story unfolded t that hat h a t the brother has ample reason for his bitterness but no more than thousands upon thousands of others squirming under the machinery of Soviet control The barber for his part was speaking from more hand first-hand information than most He has II made seven postwar trips to j I visit his relatives at a certain place in m the Soviet-occupied Soviet I zone He named the place but butI I will not to prevent any iden iden- Three of his journeys were legal Four were green or unauthorized My ul brother hasn't much land the barber explained just 50 morgen a little more than 31 acres res but its it's enough so they class him as rich Crich and make h him i m deliver extra amounts of produce to the gov gov- Has lias to Deliver The Communists dont don't care how he gets it They dont don't care if he and his family eat But he has to turn it in Two years ago he was coming coming coming com com- ing home from the fields one night driving his team o of oC three horses along the road A Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian jeep plowed into them killing one of the animals The Thc Theother Theother other two were so injured that they had to be destroyed lie He couldn't work ork the farm without the horses But he couldn't buy horses even if he had the money without turning turning turning turn turn- ing in other farm animals in trade In the end he had to give up four fOUl of his eight cows and and pay some cash in addition to get three horses Milk 1 Quota Stood Then he found that his Ins farm year still had nine months to go The Communist authorities had fixed his quota of milk de de- deliveries deliveries liveries on the basis of eight cows and this he was ordered to deliver although he only four left There wasn't any way he lie could do it so they fined him marks about 2000 Hes He's been living on potatoes and homemade jam ever since trying to pay it off Similar stories are arc told over and over by refugees who have thrown in their hands completely completely completely com com- abandoning homes and property properly for sanctuary in western western western west west- ern Germany Almost farmers farmers farm farm- armel'S arm arm- ers elS and farm laborers checked during February alone through the Uelzen screening center to which illegal border are first sent by the western Germany authorities Share of Troubles The barber has had his own sh share re of troubles but he is cheerful and energetic His home borne and his downtown business business business busi busi- ness both were destroyed by allied bombs which ripped res through h this port city But my family survived I Ican Ican Ican can still work Perhaps some someday someday someday day he hc adds a little wistfully I UI can cnn find another home He Hc and his wife and three children have been living lIvin in one and a it half rooms since the end of oC the war fir |