The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-16

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The selection of Nlkiia khrush'
ehes a. lIsl secretary 81 he Cen.
tral Commisfee uf fhe Communist
pafly strengthens TIE hand q
premier GeoFu NJ. Malenkov.
h could BE- ne ioFerunner q vast
ard important changes N The aEri-
Asniiural policy IN Russia.
KhFushchev has che a TIE hard.
st names d spell II he Soviet
= onion bul Il said to ~ one of me
Daslng going comrades 70 the TOP
Communist brass. Ne u generally
Fsown a. MaleakDy's broiherlns
o..
Il was also Khrushehev. this 50
ear.ola aon of . knrsk miner
i ho 81 kicked n his pants tNol
Aarn aao fnr suggesting TIE time
} 5as ript Cor 'Agro i0wns" N Sow
let agriculture.
Some years aao-peFhaps IS o.
- Mnlenhov VS. reported 10 have
married khruahehsv's sister. .
colneiy woman nov IN her a0'a wi0
has May friends IN kussla's world
q arss. particularly tha opera and
ballet.
Khmghchev long ago interested
himself Ia the collective farm sys-
1em-oF else vas assigned ne iob
4 being interested IN il. This may
- more logieal. Cor be never VAS
farmer or had much 10 Do with
thea.
when ~ vas party boss Of the
Soviet Union's giant southern re-
public If Ukraine. amFicuitaFe vas
naturally he suhIeet which con.
cerned him miahllly, Cor the IN
rnlne Il ne countrys greatest pro-
Queer AZ wheat and Is known as
nussia'a bread basket.
II was after he Kol 10 Moscow
four years ESQ that be received
the kick In kis eommlasarial irous.
erx Cor the suggested innovation IN
agricullure that backflred.
II BEGAN thls way:
The Moaeow press came 0ut one
morning saying ne small ladlvid.
ual collective farmer VAS not the
solution to TIE Soviet UnlDn's aari-.
kaitural pfnhlems thas lhe real
thing Of the future was hla e0ller.
live farms and TIE way 70 bring
this about wae 10 consolidate the
small farms and small farmers IN.
"a nem aad bigger enlleelive FARMS.
This new theory generated . col.
lective peasant Rrumble heard
from the black earth ~ Knrsk Co
the tundra n siberia, Cor the Rus.
sian peasant.
To the peasant, The suggestion
lor the consolidation a. small col.
ieelive farms Into BIC collective
farms meant he was going 10 have
70 wufk harder for the government,
endure tighter control over his life
and work b. The state, and see an
opening stroke IN favor of some.
thing be always had feared-tranx.
formation Of all collective farms
into state farms.
ne definitely did NOT Like the way
xhlngs were zoing.
There are two kinds Of farms In
collective farms and state
farms The collective farm Is a.
grouping II peasants who till q
certain amount Il land and raise
a certain uumher Il cattle. sheep,
hogs, chickens, etc, collectively.
The government ssts : production
target Ter them b meet and when
they do this shat u lefl over be-
longs 10 them They also have priv.
ATE plots o. land. privately owned
cows, sheep and chickens and
what they earn from these IA
theirs.
The state farm. On the other
hand. Is . bic tract u land owned
and operated BY the state. Farm
I.aborers work ios tie state Cor
salary and bonuses
Bot tbs didn't make TIE peas
ant collective farmer 30 Fesentiul
a. khrushehev's suggestion Of ~ag-
10 towns"
Roughly. an Agro town Is an
agricultural city. Bot the peasant
knew Il wOuldnt BE- much ~
cts and L wouldn1 BE- much
saero" iuf him
is saw himself bis family and
frlonds BENG moved cat IL their
present huss win their adjoining
nluss eg more or less private
rreand late some barracks room
and he wuuld live IN crowded Go
dIlnns. huddled together hke the
Russian ol the cities.
fls didnt lac tbs and said 80.
Neat thing the papers came out
Win 3 denuaciation a the Agro
town idea and fnVaFich khrush.
ehev vas he goas.
II Is difficult 10 say. however. II
tie Agro town really waH Khrush.
chex's own ldea.. The Agro town
may have been q stain trial bal
loon attributed 10 khrushehev.
noWevcr. & would seem more nat.
ural that Il vas Nlkita KhFush.
chex's idea and when Il met such
stlll opposiiion he had 10 face TIE
criticism. lle faced u. bot beyond