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they “fleeced the collective farmers” and pocketed more than100,000 roubles in a few years. 1The chairman of a collective farm in the Ukraine made over50,000 roubles at its expense by forging purchase certificatesand cash-account orders in collusion with its woman accountant,who had been praised for keeping “model accounts” andwhose deeds had been displayed at the Moscow Exhibitionof Achievements of the National Economy. 2The chairman of a collective farm in the Alma-Ata Regionspecialized in commercial speculation. He bought “fruit juicein the Ukraine or Uzbekistan, and sugar and alcohol fromDjambul”, processed them and then sold the wine at very highprices in many localities. In this farm a winery was createdwith a capacity of over a million litres a year, its speculativecommercial network spread throughout the Kazakhstan SSR,and commercial speculation became one of the farm’s mainsources of income. 3The chairman of a collective farm in Byelorussia consideredhimself “a feudal princeling on the farm” and acted “personally”in all matters. He lived not on the farm but in thecity or in his own splendid villa, and was always busy with“various commercial machinations” and “illegal deals”. Hebought cattle from the outside, represented them as the productsof his collective farm and falsified output figures. Andyet “not a few commendatory newspaper reports” had beenpublished about him and he had been called a “model leader”. 4These examples show that collective farms under the controlof such functionaries virtually become their private property.Such men turn socialist collective economic enterprises intoeconomic enterprises of new kulaks. There are often peoplein their superior organizations who protect them. Their relationshipto the collective farmers has likewise become that of1Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, No. 35, 1963.2Selskaya Zhizn, August 14, 1963.3Pravda, January 14, 1962.4Pravda, February 6, 1961.433