KOLKHOZ IMENI STALINA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952 51-4AA
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT Kolkhoz imeni Stalina
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1, Kolkhoz'imeni Stalina, located in Kiev Oblast near the town, of Katerinopol (48-571-
30-56E), comprised about five January 1949, In 1951.1 1
1 " this kolkhoz had been combined
WIT~n an a o ning one
2. Kolkhoz imeni Stalina was under the supervision of a chairmen nominated by the
P rt R
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a y y
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om and voted on by the members of the kolkhoz in an election'which was
nothing but a formality, The chairman, who was invariably from some other kolkhoz
and a Party member, kept his position as long'as his work was deemed satisfactory
by the Raykom:a Assisting the chairman were 10 to 15 people,-including a chief
for livestock, an agronomist, and a bookkeeper. In addition, there were also five
brigade leaders whose task it was to see that the workers in their respective
brigades, got to the fields on time and to check periodically on the workers during
the day, The size of a brigade varied according to the type of work it performed.
The principal crops were wheat and rye.. Smaller amounts of millet, barley, corn,
sugar beets, and sunflowers were also raised, Each year, from 50-100 hectares
were permitted to lie fallow, about the same amount was planted with various grasses,
and, in addition, there were 400?800 hectares of forest land. Occasionally new
trees were planted but in a somewhat haphazard manner,
the
ou crop yie , n e yield
was greater than in 1946 or 1947, the-latter a near- amine year, The kolkhoz had
about 50 each of sheep, pigs, and cows. about 0 oxen and 1+0 horses, and 1 bulls,
MTS provided tractors, Sheep Were raised for wool only, all-of which was delivered
to the state,, The milk obtained from the kolkhoz cows
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was also delivered to the State. The pigs were sold at the bazaar
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kolkhoz for repairs, maintenance,, etc. The kolkhoz included a small
poultry farm, with about a thousand chickens geese and turkeys, :ll th
e'ggaa were d..livered ;t the ;$it.ate, . II the kolkhoz provided
all the feed and fodder for its livestock and poultry. Small
quantities of oil cake were produced by the kolkhoz out of sunflower,
seeds and occasionally fed to-the pigs.
Of approximately two thousand people on the kolkhoz, about one thousand
were considered able-bodied workers capable of fulfilling minim
norms of work-days (tradodni). The remaining one thousand.people.con-
sisted of old people and children, many of whom also worked and
earned work-days but were not expected to fulfill minimum norms. As
seems to be the case in other kolkhozes, most of the people (approxi-"*
mately 75%) on the.Kolkhoz imeni Stalinaawere women; in fact, about
20% of the households were without an adult male. Women from 18-50
years of age were. expected to fulfill a minimum annual norm of 250
work-days; males from 18-60 were expected to fulfill an annual
25X1 minimum norm of about 400 work-days. everyone ful-
filled his annual minimum. norm, but very rew _u-_ led more than the
minimum expected of them.
Exceptionally good male workers earned up to 600 work-days a year and
exceptionally good female workers from 300-350 work-days a year. Fail
ure to fulfill one's norm usually brought a sentence of three to six-
months to be spent working on a kolkhoz without pay. After the
grain deliveries had been made to the State and the MTS, and after
some had been set aside to be used as seed. for the following year,
the remaining grain was divided among the kolkhoz members. The State
paid the kolkhoz eight rubles for one pood (16 kg) of grain (in 1949,
one good; of 6,jRt sold for 90 rubles on the open market, while in
1947, a near-famine year, it brought 600-TOO rubles). In 1948, the
25X1 kolkhoz w r ~ers we a paid li kg of grain and one ruble for each work-
day. o they received considerably less in 1946 and 1947 and
that,be re the war, payments were about three kilograms for each work-
daay, The. kolkhoz chairman received credit for about one thousand work
days a year in addition to a sizable amount of money. Tractor
operators, who earned from 600-800 work-days a year, received three kg
of grain for each work-day, Combine operators,, who earned from 600-
900 work-days a year, received more grain per work day than the tractor
operators, as well as some :money,'
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operators received three rubles for every liter of fuel they managed
to save out of the allotment given them.
6. The Kolkhoz imeni Stalimhad very few vehicles, one old li-ton Chevrole'
and.two old 1--ton QAZs. Enough tractors and combines were never
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draft animals and some by hand. about 70% of
the plowing was done by tractors and 30% by draft animals ; approximatel;
50% of .the sowing was done by draft animals, 30% by tractors, and 20%
by hand. About 50% of the reaping was done by hand and 50% by tractors
and-draft animals.
Each household had its private plot of land amounting to 4/lOths of a
hectare... Potatoes, cabbage, and cucumbers were the vegetables most
frequently grown. Most kolkhoz workers,had a cow and some had a.
and a few chickens. Each kolkhoz worker was obligated to deliver sale
potatoes to the state for the use of his private plot of land, but
amount was quite insignificant. Those who had a cow were expected, in
addition to the delivery of 200 liters of milk a year, to pay the state
a tax equivalent to 40 kg of meat at a fixed price of 17 rubles per kg.
Two hundred eggs a year. were collected ' by, the state from those who had
chickens. There was also a charge of 40. rubles a year for the use of ti
home and a nominal tax on orchards In addition to this, each kolkhoz.
worker was expected to subscribe to the state loan for 200 to 300 rubles
a year. These various taxes and levies were difficult to meet for the
kolkhoz workers,' who who received very little money for their work; they we3
therefore, eoapelled to sell many, of their own products. at bazaars in
order to ob ain'enough money' to pay the, heavy taxes,
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