Because there was a lot of cattle in our village. Ten thousand sheep were pastured on this mountain around the village. Every household had ten to twenty goats, oxen, cows, horses, everything. In the morning when they used to take them to pasture it was hard to move through the streets, and the mountain around was echoing with the bells on the necks of the cattle. It was not like now when we've forgotten what milk is.
Nobody gives a damn for the cattle.
They want to buy from the shop. He's some fool to roam through the mountains if he can sit here and wait for the postman to bring him the pension he never earned. At that time about five thousand goats were slaughtered. Because of the instruction that came from the Committee. Almost everybody in the village got diarrhoea because of all the goat meat they had to eat.