Everybody on the track said the same: “Lots of people dying.  Only beetroot. Too weak for spring sowing.
       One group: “There are thousands of unemployed. Their bread card is taken away and they have nothing.  On April 1st there’ll be another (оқращєнue) cut.
       Go down to the Poltava district and there you’ll see hundreds of cottages empty.  In a village of 300 huts only about 100 will have people living in them & others have died or gone away, but most have died.”