The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
NEWS FROM The SOVIET LAND
Labor of Former Dakota Farmers Helping to Build al
New World In Soviet Karelia.

INV We a lCLICl VI
| girl who left South Dakota to
90 with he rparents to Soviet Ka-
ella in the latter part of Septem-
Der of this year. 1t gives her per-
5Onal reaction to the new life in
The Soviet Union and presents a
picture which could not be gained
from dry statistical material.
She writes of the new world |
that is being built in Karelia and |
of the achievements that have al
ready been accomplished. She
tells of the great tasks ahead be-
fore they have achieved that
which they have planned, and of
the possible disbursement for
those who would find Socialism
thoroly established.
But more important for us is
the fact that she would not want
to come back to the capitalist
United States. For, in the Soviet
Union there are hope, confidence
and giant steps of progress while
in the United States despair of
the future, and the decay of the
system, have naught to oppose
but the determination of the mass
es to clean out this vile system Of
misery as their brother workers
and farmers in the Soviet Union
have done.
Hiilisuo Govt Farm
nov. 1, 1881.
Dear Elna, Vicente and all:
Received your very sweet but al
together too brief letter yester-
day. Will follow your example
and make it a point to see that a
letter by some of our crew leaves
the 8. u. each week addressed to
one of you.
We have been living in our own
apartment for three days and In
spite Of the fact that there is but
one large room, a clothes closet
plu dishes and odds and ends
and a porch it feels mighty good
to be at home. Really we have a
very coy, light and well ventilat-
ed home with a perfectly grand
vista from this hillside location of
birch and evergreen trees with a
large potato field In the fore
ground.
The item OF food-we, meaning
all OF us comrades In the Soviet
Union, have our respective central
eating places or restaurants, Ioca-
tdoA depending on where one
works or stays ION the farm here
there Is just one large "fuokala")
One buys his meal tickets at his
designated eating place and thes.
: tickets are good only at this one
2 place. If you are from 'Hiilisuo
: you eat at 'Hiinsuo,' you canno+
go to any eating place in town o,
elsewhere and get your meals un
less you get special privilege as
| guest or change your place o
employment to that special con
oern. Money does not help 1
this case. The food is simple
good and wholesome It ts serve
In fairly good proportion AZ to Ii
different food elements ana the1
i is always PzaNTx OF it.
Here on the farm they serv
! hot breakfast food (it may DO on
OF oatmeal, rice, barley meal CRU,
(darned good), whole wheat wit
" q liter Of whole milk and q
- the bread You can carry. Breal
fast at 81 A. M. Dinner-serv
two or more kinds of food (pot;
toes, either peeled or not, boilet
= brown gravy, fish or meat, SON
= kind OF vegetables, beets, maca;
~ oni with cabbage, rice with cal
Z: bage or mixture OF beets, carrot
u and onions-vegetables serve
&c twice a day In some form or otl
a er-and tea and brown bres
Ie (bread is always real dark, usua
= ly all rye sometimes half rye al
III half who1e-wheat-as a rule it
pretty sour, it takes an Amer
A. cans stomach some time to g
~ adapted to it-but If one desir
AZ and the supply is not exhaust'
III one can get regular dark yea
Is bread). Dinner served here
~ the farm 11-12 A. NJ. Supper
"mojakka" is the main and usu
!. dish (put up from potatoes, d
u ferent kinds Of vegetables, me
re or fish, etc.), bread and tea. su
per As.
III Children under age Of 4 and
az dividua1s, sick or convalescing G
liter "a little better than pin
. of milk a day plus their regul
morning allowance.
" All foreigners are present
~ with a booklet Of rations, ite1
&c and quantities each on regist1
ns tion for work. we, meaning Il
ns eigners are able 10 get sugar, ca
So' ned milk, white flour, Cyea
p, lighter bread), butter, cook
(platn, frosted, bran, etc., as
rule not asst sweet as there, I
really very good) candy q
tasted candy here that exceeds a
American candy in Havor), chez
meats, eggs, apples marmala
vodka, mocha coffee, tea, RI
shoes, sox, silk underwear, DO