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… think will increase the desire of the workers to work.
        But there have been too many wreckers, too many kulaks, who have been trying to influence the other peasants.
         Breakfasted, then sister of wife did algebra lesson.
        The Communists realised & admitted that there was no grain. That was ‘Bockrenchenka’ [?]  in the Black Earth region. Lower down it is much worse.
        Talked to all the people as I tramped along the railway track. Ravens or crows (with…