Show new language of tile tho proletariat this much despised word applies to any peasant who dares work for his bis own interests there are many Inde indeed In depend pd ent farmers like ourselves it was not long before this spirit of independence Inde pendil began to frighten the they shot many the name ill kulak 1 ak I 1 was signal enough tor for a red army tiring firing squad i we knew that it WO we stayed la in russia the communists would reduce us ua to the same condition of poverty as aa that of the boss laki 11 in plata plain american boss laki 11 explains mr hammond means village bums in old russia a kosslak was a barefooted hobo a tramp without shoes from this usage tile the plural boss taki 11 dame came to bo be employed as a general term of 0 opprobrium denoting ex convicts beggs and other vagrant riffraff of the worst description now the soviet state has placed Rus sias agricultural population entirely under the thumb of the bos siaki 11 grandfather cappla outlined the life lie of the bos boss alakl laki the official bums buma in our villages he said they ran everything they were the town constables the postmasters school corn com mette MOtte 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 racketeers never have dreamed of attaining says mr hammond |