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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1948.
MRS OKSANA KASENKINA'S OWN STORY
TOW to escapo alive from
H
the spreading scourge of the collectivisation drive was the urgent question worry. ing our families having relatives on the land. Demyan's father, who had formed his field all his life, decided that there was only one way to save himself and his family. He would abandon his homestead, move to the city, and get a factory job. This he did, and he was saved. My father's brother, Also a middling farmer, dld likewise and survived the man- made storm.
The Communist offensive against private farming put a premium on the ne'er-do-well, The parasite became, under the label of proletarian, the privi. leged character in the village. The thrifty peasant who had a horse, a "couple of cows, a few acres of land, as was the enge with my father-in-law and my
treated as uncle, was now kulnk. Originally the kulak category comprised only the hard-fisted and usurious per
A
sants of whom there were A handful in each community, Now the kulak classification was applied to the millions of middle class farmers who formed the backbone of the nation's agri,
SPECIAL TIMES:
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culture.
on the
Havoc In Country THE collectivisation campaign
wrought havoc country. Communist shock troops rounded up recal.
who citrant peasants.
would not be driven into collec- tives, and shipped them off by the trainload to stockades, con- centration camps and Siberia. Families were mercilessly broken up, and their stock, poultry and last food supplies taken away. Often women
Fourth Chapter
The Russian school. teacher who jumped to freedom from the window of the USSR Consulate in New
thus York, and escaped repatriation to Communist Russia, today tells of the second great inmine that struck her native land. She also tells. of how her sister, Eugenlo, made attempts to send food parcels to the Kasenkinas from England and with what frightening results.
置
had
shevik, and ት።
address
A
cowardice." an "unworthy net of Skrypnik was berated in the Soviet press after his death, which endent ed him to many as a martyr in the cause of the people.
In these days of semi-starvation for all of us, my sister Eugenia. who lived in England, sent us food parcels on several occasions. My understand why father could not they were not delivered, and travelled all the way to Moscow to investigate. He found that the cus toms dullen. were so exorbitant that we could not afford to redeem the parcels. Their contents were then zold at auction.
In addition, my father got into trouble when the political authoritien discovered that he had a daughter abroad. When and how had she left for England? Why was her name Robertson? These and many other questions were fired at filin was sternly admonished that if he were a true Soviet patriot, he would have his daughter come back to Russia. When he arrived home. he warned us never to mention to anyone again that we had a relative lic abroad. "Or we'll all perish,"* added. Already, maintaining con- Inet with foreigners made one sub- ject to
charge of treason, punishable by death,
Atmosphere Of Foar
Mrs Eugenia Robertson, aged 45 (left), 'widow of a British Army officer, photographed at LaGuardia airport in New York after her arrival by plane from London to visit her sister, Mrs Oksana Kasenkina. (AP Photo).
person marked for seizure by the established the machine of terror was now falling under its own axe NKVD.
wielded by Stalin.
"I have no sister in England, it
mistake," must be a
my Moscow sister fiatly told the messenger, *1 don't know nny such person
as
heard him teachers' conference in Voroshilov- grnd not long before. He had urged Ukrainian lan- the adoption of the guage in all our educational institu- tions, which was n trying task for whose mother tongue many of us
But Skrypnik had the was Russian.
humane Bol- reputation of being a
appearance and manner beløkened a man of culture. Skrypnik's suicide, which rever- bernted throughout the Soviet. Union, was an expression of his dia- may over the extermination of mil- MY sister Eugenin knew little of the lions of Ukrainian Ilves In the atmosphere of fear surrounding
Those were the days of the assas- collectivisalion drive ordered from us. After a lapse of time during Moscow. This
freely which she had heard nothing from sination of Sergei Kirov, regarded as rumoured, for there was not much the family, she decided to put Stalin's right hand man and succes- the Ukrainlate through a telephone call from Lon-sur-layn which shook Soviet Russia. love lost between
sister of ours then from one end to the other. There nationalists and the Muscovite Rus- don to another
Communist living in Moscow. For an ordinary followed immense convulsions within
(Tomorrow The events Red oligarchy. citizen to be called to the the stans, even within the
Communists confirmed Soviet ranks. It was ufeinilyhen Stalin's Central central office to receive a telephone began to devour each other, and the leading to the purge of Oksana
12 Fulshevik Old
had Kasenkinn's husband.) call from England is to become Commitee denounced his suleide as
(Cepurlykt, 1943, King Features Syndicate, lue. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited)
Was
REGULAR WEDNESDAY FEATURE:
Sitting
ELL, cor sufferin arch- bishops," said tho
Sweep, if that don't
whose husbands or sons werd take the Untley and Palmer." ́s deported would, out of despair, set fire to their homesteads.
"What do?" I asked.
Sometimes entire fields were "Why, Cor stone the crows, if burned by persecuted peasants there ain't a little old sweep_from during the harvest to destroy Nottingham goin to Russia to try the crops and keep them out of to fix things up with little
Joe Stalin." the hands of government grain collectors.
"Well," I said, "And you
old
don't want to start
laughin at that," said the Sweep.
"I ain't laughin.”
"A little old sweep could do an well as anybody else."
"Why not?"
We knew of whole communi- ties sent off into exile in the Don region, where peasant bands resisted with arms what they regarded-as-a-return-to "Them there little old Russians serfdom. The guilty as well might as well say no to a sweep as the innocent, old and young, as say no to them there le old
politicians." men, women, and children, the sick and the crippled, all were herded together and loaded on to freight cars, which became death traps and carriers of disease.
"Ear, cor."
no diferenca
"It wouldn't make and wouldn't cost art the money."
"That's right.""
cald
"And if it comes to that," the Sweep, "I don't see why you These consignments and me shouldn't go ourselves, It of dehumanised humanity filled would make a nice little ollday."
for the "Very nice." the railways, bound Arctic or the desert regions. I can still hear the piteous cries of the of the dispossessed, hungry, and of emaciated in- fants.
1
"Bit of a a chango from Margit." "Too true."
sera obertson," she, led, "and never heard of her."
Guard which
But this was only the beginning of the Grent Purge, which in time also engulfed hundreds of thousands of non-politieat eltizens, including a multitude of teachers. It was to swallow Demyan, my husband, and to wrench my life out of its rou- tine.
on the Fence
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
"So let's ope this cre Nottingham sweep will ave a bit more sense."
"Let's ope so."
You can't mix business pleasure."
"Certainly not,"
(the
all be sentenced to life imprison. ment in an English Belsen as Fascist reactionaries.
Your loving,
Aunt Maud.
Party conversation MARGARET'S father thinks we
stand a poor chance in a whisky versus vodku war because we have rent most of our ammunition to America."
"My husband says the Russluns have always been barbarians, and thought of concentration camps long before anybody else."
"For
has been
hundreds of years Siberia concentration the biggest in the world." whenever you read that we have
Florrio came round in ten lost of the Norwegian spread) and told us that Communism is the false with religion with which Satan is sup- posce to decelve the world before Load showdown, and said that
Emily ought to go to church more signed a new butter contract with often, as there isn't much time left somebody you know the ration's
Loing to be reduced.”
"Nothing is ever increased taxation,"
on
"Though, before you start your little bit of typin, you might
as well ave one for the road."
"Thanks."
She also said that the Russians "The skin orf your nose," said the will start the war at Christmas by Sweep.
"The skin orf yourn."
Letter from an
aunt
git
"Because you wouldn't expect to
winkles in
Moscow." "Naturally," I said.
Mw
Y dear Boy,
We are all very quiet
the
down hure, except Emily, who has read "And you wouldn't be able to some Indion prophecy about buy no picture postcards of a fat world ending next week and is lady bein bitten by a crab." making a great fuss about nothing
as usual. "Of course not."""" "But
conding everybody in the country. a parcel full of germs with "Merry Christmas from Uncle Joe" on the label and paper helly all round it.
Emily tried to rush upstairs for aspirin, but was turned
back
by
in the your uncle's gun standing hall and we had to give her a thimbleful of South African brandly.
★
*
but
Com-
"My husband says the only way to stop burglary is to hang people for theft as they did 100 years ago." "Now that nobody need starve, there's no excuse for stealing?” "A lot of people become munists because they fancy them- Blows with rolled-up magazines selves as intellectual
"Of course, the real intellectuals Intellectuala and never think of such nonsense. I don't were struck at the last meeting of the Whist Club Emily's political action group, the suppose Shakespeare ever imagined Impoverished Gentlewomen's True himself an intellectual,"
"In Margarel's father's new book, her Blue Conservative Association.
"Twenty Thousand Hang-overs, ho sum-
When a True Blue said that all gres you a daily diet which prac winter
Communista tendly cuts out eating altogether," autumn Socialists were renily
"Brenda's husband's last hope of same as they used to give bronchitis following her
colds and her spring 'fla following an cught to he locked up an in- exactly how many millions perished away pictures of little old Itler."
her winter bronchitis, I can't think lectual replied that it would be avoiding her thy cooking is to live Just as true to say that all Conserva- an bread and butter and raw salads. planned
lives were Fascists and ought to be He says it's either that or sulckle," why she should worry,
lecked up.
Millions Perished
THUS came the second great famino
THE
I daresay you'd git a lot of
of little okú
Joo
to afflict Russia in my life-pictures time, a famine not of nature's mak-nothink." ing, but in consequence of the Five- Year Pinn. No one will ever know
fri
Communist
that offensive. But more than once my husband and I heard the line as it was passed down from the highest Bolshevik leaders:
"The collectivisation must succeed and the village capitalists crushed, regardless of the cost in human Ilves."
"Thank you."
The
"That's right."
for
any
In
what with case, autumn colds following her mer catarrh and her
"It's funny ow these ere dictators fancy their faces, ain't it?"
"Ain't it?"
*
*
Your Uncle Fred is very excited about the international situation, "Personally, meself I'd rather ave picture of Bitle old Mae West or and sits by the radio ev ry night at news time hoping to hear an somethink worth lookin at."
"Mc 100."
appeal for another Home Guard, "Stiil," said the Sweep, "what
He has his shotgun, loaded with all the time you spend readin the bottom of the stalics, which this included almost everybody in are." the papers I daresay you could ask keepa Emily in her room most of the country we should all have to little old Joo a tow questions"
}: "Maube," I acid.
*
"If any more American alimere The row started when the Whist come over here we shall be the 47th State before we know where wa at Club Secretary pointed out that pa
"When I told her domestic service' The catastrophie disruption of the national economy, however, caused
expected. the day, though he occasionally puts lock curselves up as there would be was noble work, she asked why the
hel! the nobility always deep cracks to be opened in Stalin's
it in the tool shed to let her down nebody else to do it; and so far as somebody else to do it. iron cohort. The first major sign
Though I reckon he wouldn't arf
he was concerned the present 'com- for meals,
"If we married men for the shape of the cleavage within the ranks of
of their legg there'd be an awful. the ruling caste came in our own lead
up the garden." too."
He has been told by some high- pany could go and do it now, The gardener, who reads Ukraine, and in my own field. The
the lot of bachelors in the world." "Specially after you'd been at up at the War. Office that he will be Commissar of
"Margaret's father says he could
the whole business by Ukrainian Republic, A. Skrypnik, the vodka for a couple of hours. at least a general next time, and Daily Worker every morning (on
of lifting rettle staff our paper blil) instead
whisky one of Lenin's original band of re- Cor sirike a light, I reckon you'd has already appointed his
officers from his saloon-bar cronies the potatoes, saya that when ho Is challenging Stalla to volutionists, committed suicide in be under the table' afore then."
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