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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN 'VOLUNTARY' SLAVE LABOR We have just .perused a large number of recent Soviet news papers, all replete with calls on the Ukrainian populace, chiefly on the -girls-, urging them to go to Asia and to toil on virgin soil to reclaim .it for the Soviet govern ment. According to an official re port by Nikita Khrushchev there is a shortage of grain in Soviet Union, hence tlhe food is to be gained by cultivating the deso late steppes in Kazakhstan. We do not wish to dwell here on the causes of the shortage, however, we do stress the fact that the bolshevik system which ravaged the private initiative and personal interest in agriculture, is responsible for it. For as it is well known, the government i.s grabbing all the yield except the fragment left to kolkhozniks, barely enough to vegetate. The Soviet government is not perturbed b}' the lack of food, it is griev-ed because it cannot ex port enough grain so as to buy machines and raw materials abroad in order to manufacture equipments for armed forces, to make Soviet Union militarily the strongest country in the world and thus to enable it to set out to “liberate” other nations, “enslav ed” by the capitalist world. Yes, this is the reason why the Soviet Union wants to utilize the untilled lands of Asia which will be best cultivated toy the Ukrain ian farmer, especially by his in dustrious wife anid daughters. Therefore her place is in Asia. And should they perish in the wilderness, it would be so much the better for the bolshevik gov ernment, .since the numtoter of those striving and struggling for freedom will diminish. This is that unwritten truth which may be read between the lines in the appeals and articles on the work in Asian regions. There were reports from Asia and “self-critizing” remarks per mit us to see through the surrep titious Soviet screen of lies the present picture of appalling re ality in Asia. The Soviet government usual ly simplifies the realization of its somersaults- but it never grieves over the plight of the perform ers. All it cares for is to have the plan executed up to 100 per cent or over. It now plans to reclaim in Ka zakhstan 40,000,000 hectares of virgin soil. It is projected to cul tivate in 1954-55 13,000,000 ha. For this the Soviet government needs certain number of toilers, and this task was assigned to Uk rainians, who — as the Soviet press insinuates — “are happy” that such a responsible mission has been allotted to them. Of course, this press would not dare mention that the Ukrainians are being compelled to go east, though bolshevik propaganda re sounds that they do it of their own free will. Yet this process is well known to us. We are aware that the Uk rainian families leave their homes under compulsion, just as they did in 1940 when NVD were taking them under threat of new inves tigation which means that the victims of NVD usually disap pear in some distant concentra tion camps. They are pressed into cattle wagons and then shipped to unknown destination. Confronted with the alternative set forth by NVD, the girls are signing up and departing for work in Asia. Their Applica tions” are promptly taken care of and they soon arrive at the con centration point in Pustanay Ukrainian girl from the region of Pokuttia where they remain for some time in the camps until they are taken to a wild steppe where they find themselves amid agricultural ma chinery and tools. Only very in frequently there may be observed a small hut, a shelter against na ture’s elements. So far no more than 15 per cent of the workers have been provided with the roof. In such circumstances are veg etating the wT,hole families, includ ing old fathers and mothers, who are compelled to dig caves to pro vide some shelter for the night. There is no mail coming, no clothes for work. The only thing the people are getting there after
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