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THE W OM AN UNDER SOVIET YOKE There is an old saying- that facts are stranger than fiction. To prove this one ’has only to read accounts of tlhe persons who wit nessed the life, or rather the en durance, of the people under bol shevik regime in the Soviet Union. The Ladies’ Home Journal, in the issue for March 1953, carries a diary 'by Lydia Kirk, wife of former U. ,S- ambassador to Rus sia. As it is known the movements of the members of American em bassy and their families in So viet Union are rigidly restricted. They are not per mt ted to visit private citizens or institutions, or even inspect buildings. Still Mrs. Kirk managed to observe keenly many a thing in Moscow. She saw the “bolshevik way of living” in the streets, she peered through the windows and doors rto find out the “new way” of living there, she went to the parks and markets. Her records of daily events in Moscow are very ably written and extremely interesting to American women who have never experienced such exist ance or ob served such manner of living. But let us quote a few passages from Mrs. Kirk's memoranda: I've asked for permission to vis it a Russian hospital — any Rus sian hospital — but so far have heard nothing from my request. I’ve also put in to see a school and a day nursery, but doubt whether I will hear anything from any one of them. We went to the big central mar ket where the peasants and kol khoz (collective farm) workers bring in their produce. Individuals are allowed to sell over and above what the state has set as their quota. Not unnaturally, they try to keep the be sit for this 'purpose, as they can set their own prices in the free market. The only vegetables—and this is early August, when gardens should be at their peak—were cu cumbers-, carrots, cabbages, a few shrunken onions, and now and again some small -parsnips and hand-picked mushrooms from the fields. I saw women buy not a half or a quarter of a cabbage, but three or four leaves, two or three car rots, 'the same with onions. All this goes into soup, for that’s the main dish of the Russian people. Even their meat, when they can afford it, is cooked in it. They have very few roasts, and broil ing is unheard of. Meat for them is stew meat, cut into chunks that you see housewives carrying home from market sometimes un wrapped in their bare hands. If it is wrapped, it is in a bit of old newspaper, crammed down into their string bags. The fat is cut away from the meat and sold sep arately, often used to spread on bread, foir the people eat lard in this way instead of butter or margarine. You see them everywhere, heav ing stone and bricks, unloading trucks, shovelinig sand and gravel, plastering .painting—all with the same plodding sub missive ness. Reports say that the girls, an xious to come to Moscow, are re cruited in the country and told they can get here only by signing manual-labor contracts. As most of them have had no superior schooling, they could hardly be able to do anything else, but the sight of them out there shuffling about in the asphalt is shocking to our eyes. After work, trucks come by to pick them up and off they go, loaded on top of what ever cargo the truck may be car rying, indistinguishable from the sacks of cement or flour or rags. Agust 29, 1949 I’ve been watching the women at work on Mokhovaya Square. They are repaving the street, pouring and smoothing asphalt and operating the steam-roller machines. These girls are dressed in cotton sikirts and shirts or jac kets, kerchiefs over their heads, their legs in thick cotton stock ings, with thin canvas shoes to which the hot asphalt sticks in lumps. Only along the railroads have I seen any women wearing trousers in Russia, and our own embassy wives tell me that even in the winter no woman wears ski pants on the street. Working in asphalt is a dirty CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN OF “MOTHER AND CHILD COMMITTEE” CONCLUDED The Mother and Child Commit tee, a chapter of WFUWO, has just •con-chided its Christmas cam paign for collecting food and clothes for the aged and infirm DP’s still remaining in Germany and Austria. During November and Decem ber 1952 as well as in January 1953 the Committee sent packag es of food and clothes. The Ukrainian Women’s Asso ciation in Germany formed to gether with the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee (UUARC) a distributing center which is allotting the commodi ties to all needy Ukrainians in Germany, Austria and other countries of Western Europe. Tlhe Ukrainian Women’s Asso ciation is in particular taking care of the widows, widowers, their children and the children of un married mothers. job and a hard one, but there seems no job that is too rough and hard for these women to do. In theory this may be a “land of equal opportunity,” but I should say the women had the greater share! One cannot help wondering about their health, for surely it must be affected by such hard work. I asked one of the corres pondents who has lived here for years about this. “Yes,” he said, “there are spe cial hospitals for those girls. They look strong, but a couple of years of hard labor can tear them to pieces. They are sent in by the hundreds to be patched up and, if unfit, shipped bac-k to the coun try.” ЖІНКА ГОЛОВОЮ СОЙМУ Сойм стейту Вермант вибрав спіке ром палати паню Консерело Нортроп Бейлі. Це другий раз в історії Америки, що жінка вибрана головою стейтового сойму. Перший раз була вибрана го ловою сойму Норт Дакоти Минас Крейґ в 1933 р. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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