The Caretaker on Nostr: nprofile1q…utsg3 I don't feel like it ever went away though. I knew a farmer, when ...
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I don't feel like it ever went away though. I knew a farmer, when I was a teenager, many decades ago, who escaped from Ukraine while Stalin was in power. He described mass starvation while the region produced huge amounts of grain. It was all for the state. The Soviet Union while claiming to be socialist, had wealthy bureaucrats due to corrupt practices. His descriptions paralleled the story of the pigs in Animal Farm by Orwell. He left Ukraine by hiking out on foot traveling only at night. He was 14 years old at the time. When I met him he was in his mid 60s. He told me his choices were to stay and certainly starve or try and escape and perhaps die on the journey. He eventually made it to the USA and got his mother, sister, and one of his uncles out, if I remember the family relationships correctly. He was the only one in the house that spoke English.
I don't feel like it ever went away though. I knew a farmer, when I was a teenager, many decades ago, who escaped from Ukraine while Stalin was in power. He described mass starvation while the region produced huge amounts of grain. It was all for the state. The Soviet Union while claiming to be socialist, had wealthy bureaucrats due to corrupt practices. His descriptions paralleled the story of the pigs in Animal Farm by Orwell. He left Ukraine by hiking out on foot traveling only at night. He was 14 years old at the time. When I met him he was in his mid 60s. He told me his choices were to stay and certainly starve or try and escape and perhaps die on the journey. He eventually made it to the USA and got his mother, sister, and one of his uncles out, if I remember the family relationships correctly. He was the only one in the house that spoke English.