Tag #114967 - Interview #78047 (Eva Ryzhevskaya)

Father became a farmer after his return from the army. We had a plot of land, which almost reached the river Sura. Father uprooted the trees and made an orchard there. His brother Simeon's plot of land was nearby. When the Soviet regime began to divide land, Father was also given a plot of land. He began to grow and sell wheat. When the Soviet regime introduced collectivization [7], my father was one of the first ones in the villages, who joined the kolkhoz [8]. Mother also became a kolkhoz member.