Categories: Family, Leonida Makhon

Did you mother tell you about the Polish times? How did they live at that time?

Well, she told me that at… that it was better times than … She told me that she had to work, so when you worked for the landlord he paid according to the amount of work done. You see. So… That is different from those times when we went to work and received «palachka» only (transl.: a stick-like mark in a timesheet).

Are you speaking about collective farms?

Yes, about collective farms. She told me, she told me one who worked, so one lived. She told me everyone had to work. Well, if you didn’t work no one could aliment you.

How did your private household look like? Did you have a cow?

Yes, we had.

And did you have a horse?

Yes, we had a horse too. And we used to have more than one cow when we lived at those times. Well. And when I lived here with Misha we used to have more than one cow. Well. We had sheep too. And this… we had a horse, lots of land, lots of cropland. An-n-n-d we had lots of land, we cropped a lot: and pees, and buckwheat, and-and… everything, different grains. And flax; we broke flax; we had our own thresher. We threshed. We had everything.

Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ имени Я. Купалы