At the end of February 1930, a series of trains from the Lower Volga and Middle Volga regions, Ukraine, Belarus and Crimea began to arrive at the Vologda railway station. The transport of special settlers was carried out under appalling conditions. One of those forced to re-.
To live those terrible days, he recalls: "We were all loaded into wagons in which cattle were transported, and they were not completely cleaned of garbage. Forced out of the system.
They used loose boards to build bunk beds, gave two buckets to each carriage to facilitate the needs of the person, closed the carriage doors, hung locks on them and led them to starvation, regardless of the person's age, old or old, boy or baby. Hunger, uncleanliness, we traveled for more than a week, and by the end of the week the first dead appeared, who should not even be buried." Their collective letter is addressed to M. J. Eloquently testifies to the ordeal of the kulak families who found themselves in the Vologda district. Kalinina. In a speech to the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the deportees wrote: "Mikhail Ivanovich! If you looked at life in the barracks, you would be horrified. We can live in these barracks for two years and none of us will survive.
The huts were built in the forest, in a humid place, with a quarter of a meter of water each. we.
We are drowning in the swamp with our boots on. These huts are built of planks and covered with straw.
So the wind whistles around. Mikhail Ivanovich, saved us from such a disaster and famine, we ask you to pay attention to this. We were sent here to die, and what kind of kulaks would we be if we had one horse, one cow and 8 sheep each? We were no harm to the country, but we worked and fed the people what we could, and now we ourselves are dead. More than 3,000 people have already died." It may seem to some that the dispossessed peasants are deliberately faking what is happening. Alas, there is not an iota of fiction in their revelations. This was stated in the letter of the chairman of the government committee for the placement of special settlers and. N.