There are reasons for that remark, for they have seen opposition to the alleged rash advance on several occasions. Some peasants were so disgusted that they refused to eat, or kept to their beds, page 236 or skipped work a dozen days in a row. Because they have fallen under the influence of some of the middle peasants. Here what makes the difference is the Party's policy and method of work with respect to the middle peasants in the co-operative movement. But this is not at all how things stand.
Shortcomings there are in our work, but on the whole the movement is healthy.
If some of the middle peasants want to wait and see, we should let them. Thus a big problem has arisen. With the movement spreading widely at the grass roots but receiving insufficient attention from above, some troubles naturally occur. We have just compiled a book, How to Run Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives. The bulk of the material covers the period January-August 1955 and the rest the second half of 1954.