Figure 1.--This snapshot is dated, we know it was taken in 1935 which proably merans that it was a family on a collective farm. All we know for sure is the date. There are interesting aspects to this photograph. The family does not look very prosperous, but they do have a dog--which is a positive sign. And you have to consider it was probably a warm summer day because the photograph was taken in July. It is also important to note that bcause if the Soviet internal passport system, the family was not free to leave the farm--essentially becoming news serfs.

This snapshot is dated, we know it was taken in 1935 which proably merans that it was a family on a collective farm. All we know for sure is the date. There are interesting aspects to this photograph. The family does not look very prosperous, but they do have a dog--which is a positive sign. And you have to consider it was probably a warm summer day because the photograph was taken in July. It is also important to note that bcause if the Soviet internal passport system, the family was not free to leave the farm--essentially becoming news serfs. This is the most extreme exampole of what an important economist was talking about in his writings. [Hayek] Because conditiions on collective farms were rather poor, the Soviet Government used the passport system to precent farm worketrs from leaving the farms. In most countries, people on farms usually fared better in terms of food. This was not the case in the Soviet Union. The NKVD was so efficent in controlling the food that even in terms of food the collective farm workers fared poorly. Parents would send the children out into the fielkds at night which became a serious crime in the Soviet Union leading to sentencess in the Gulag. [Solzhenitsyn, pp. 57-58.] This dangerous theft of socialist property led to 10-year sentences. Farm workers were more sucessful in hiding food from the NAZis than the NKVD.

Sources

Hayek, F.A. The Road to Serfdom (1944).

Solzhenitsyn, Alexsanddr I. Trans, Thomas P. Wjitney. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-56: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Harper & Row: New York, 1973), 660p.

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