"MY DAD, THE SOCIALIST KULAK" "When my dad comes back," "When my dad comes back, all the flowers will be golden." "Dad will come and the world will come alive." "Doesn't rhyme!" "Tincek!" "Look, the sun is setting." "It's just one finger above Urban." "In one hour mother will come home." "And the train will arrive." "people living in Urban are very lucky." "Why?" "They can catch the sun, when it goes down." "silly!" "You can't catch the sun." "The train will come now." "Yes." "But your husband won't come." "He's still in Russia." "Let's work." "Medved's watching us." "Not for long!" "The new government said, there won't be any landlords." "The land will be ours." "Sure!" "Every government says that." "Daddy!" "They're already coming." "He'II come, you'II see." "Toncka!" "You're here!" "Dad, did you bring anything?" "You've done enough." "You've worked very well." "Thanks." "I've got to go home." "The kids are waiting for me." "will you come tomorrow?" "Of course." "until we finish." "whole this time during the war ..." "I was longing to sit under my trellis." "Did you also kill anyone?" "Don't ask." "Was it bad in the army?" "Did you butcher?" "No, we saved this for you." "My dear Toncka, now let's all eat together." "No, that's for you." "Eat." "I won't, daddy." "Just eat, dad." "You don't know what hunger is." "Death to fascism!" "Good afternoon." "You've come back." "You came from German front?" "From Russian captivity." "AII right." "You must report to KLOJ tomorrow." "KLOJ?" "What's that?" "It's the local people's committee." "Death to fascism!" "What's that?" "Nothing." "Mother wants to have everything clean if dad comes." "He won't come today." "What if he doesn't come back at all?" "Are you nuts?" "Don't you ever say that again!" "Where's mother?" "I'm hungry." "Someone's coming." "Death to fascism!" "God bless." "I'II show you God!" "Now you have to greet like this:" "Death to fascism!" "And you have to answer:" "Liberty to the people!" "Okay?" "Let's try." "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "Good." "God will provide." "I'II show you God." "There's no God." "olga, you should know that." "Don't you attend youth association meetings?" "Mother told me not to go, until dad gets back." "Maybe they'd spurn me cause dad was in German army." "God Lord!" "No, there's no God." "Are you crazy?" "Your dad was forcibly recruited into German army." "He escaped to join the great Red army under stalin." "Maybe he was lucky enough ... to die as BoIshevik." "Vanc!" "What are you saying?" "I'II tell mother." "Where's your mother?" "At Medved's." "Medved is a kulak, remember." "We communists will take everything from him." "Your mother shouIdn't work for kuIaks." "We'II found the collectives." "Land for the people who work it!" "If your collectives give bread and milk for the kids" "I won't go to work for the kulak." "We can't eat the slogans." "There'II be everything!" "Even the electricity and pudding." "Each according to his needs." "This is the transition phase on the road to communism." "In couple of years there'II be no shortage, just communism." "You're completely mixed up with that slogans." "In one year we'II be throwing meat aweay." "Throwing meat?" "That'II never happen." "Just wait and you'II see." "In communism we'II throwing meat away." "Where are you going, mum?" "Eat your supper." "What are you doing, Vanc?" "I've brought you something." "What is it?" "Meat!" "Lesnik butchered it illegally, an gave me some so I wouldn't denounce him at the KLOJ." "But I didn't want to take it." "So I brought it for you." "Why are you doing this?" "I wanted to show you how I'II take care of you and the kids if Joze doesn't return." "I don't want to hear it." "What?" "But he asked me to help you, if something happens to him at the front." "What did he tell you?" "Something political that should be done in private." "What?" "political things spoken in private?" "Be quiet!" "Move that paper." "The floor is scrubbed for father." "I tell you, you have to raise your children properly." "What's wrong now?" "They shouldn't give the old greeting God bless." "Then how?" "Listen, you two." "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "Jesus, Vanc!" "You're red as hard communist." "I'm an activist, a member of the KLOJ and I can help you." "You have to be more careful until we achieve communism." "You think they haven't asked me at the KLOJ ... why are you working for kuIaks?" "What's use of your meat if I must hide it?" "We need bread and milk every day." "What meat did you bring?" "Don't tell anyone." "Getting meat is punishable, cause we're not in communism yet." "At this phase we must be careful, don't we Vanc?" "Just mock me, Mimika." "I can't give you bread and milk, but I can give you the right direction." "I should go now." "I have a meeting at KLOJ." "New government works at night, too." "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "God will provide." "Mum, read us dad's letter." "I've read it a hundred times." "Doesn't matter." "Dear Mimika!" "I don't have much time." "Russians are near." "I'II do what I told you." "I believe I'II stay alive as I have a picture ..." "Of Virgin Mary." "Wait for me and take care of our children." "will Tincek still recognize me?" "I hope you're not hungry and you're all in good health." "If you have any problems, my cousin Vanca will help you." "I must finish now." "StaIin's organs begun to sing." "Kiss my children for me." "Your Jozek." "Why did he write that?" "If Germans read the letter, they know that he wants to escape." "They might shoot him as a deserter." "What if he didn't escape?" "What if someone shot him?" "Maybe he's still in Russian captivity." "Maybe he'II come tomorrow morning." "No, in the evening." "Sun will set over Urban." "It's not important when he comes, only that he's alive." "Of course he's alive!" "If he's dead, he can't come so far." "Shut up, silly!" "It's my fault." "boiled eggs, pork ..." "His stomach burst." "He came back from Russia alive and died here, at home." "Just today, when he had to report to the KLOJ." "Does God exsists?" "Of course he does." "Why did Gorjup die than?" "It's not fair!" "The president of the youth league says there is no God." "Under the communism no one will cry at funerals." "Of course not!" "Death is a dialectic phenomenon." "Who'd cry for that?" "Today we give into the earth a simple an honest man Ivan Gorjup." "Like Lazarus, he came home fprom the embrace of death." "But death was awaiting him here." "Let us pray for our brother Ivan Gorjup." "Our father, who art in heaven ..." "It's my fault!" "When my dad returns the house will be golden." "Mum shouIdn't give him much food at first, so he won't be ill and his stomach burst." "He won't come today." "It's too late." "It's good that we don't have as much to eat as Gorjup." "Why?" "It could burst his stomach." "Idiot!" "I think it's him." "No, he isn't." "Dad didn't have a moustache." "That's right." "Do the MaIeks still live here?" "Good afternoon." "Liberty to the people." "Are you kids alone?" "Yes." "Where's your mother?" "Are you our ...?" "Dad ... it's you?" "Tincek!" "You're such a big boy!" "olga ..." "Where's your mother?" "We can call her." "Mimika!" "I'm home!" "Joze!" "Mimika!" "I am home!" "Joze!" "Mimika!" "Why are you crying?" "Aren't you happy that dad's back?" "I am, Tincek." "Of course I am." "If we' re happy we laugh, not cry." "Be quiet, smart alec." "I came on foot from Sombatheya." "Now he's here before our eyes, the house is like paradise." "What?" "Now I made a poem." "He's always thinking up poems." "MaIek, you're back." "Yes." "Come around sometime." "I will." "We've got nothing else." "It's good anyway." "Tomorrow we'II have meat." "Meat?" "uncle Vanc brought it, but we shoIudn't tell anyone." "Lesnik cut it illegally and gave some to Vanc so he won't talk." "Vanc is a member of KLOJ." "Of what?" "The regional people's committee." "He was also an activist." "I've always said he'd go far in spite of his limp." "It's better that you don't eat too much." "Gorjup ate too much and burst his stomach." "There's no danger of that here." "I'II tell you what I've learned in the war." "Three boiled potatoes a day, that's all you need." "uncle Vanc said that we'II be throwing away meat one day." "Shut up!" "When communism come." "The Russians already have communism, but not the meat." "Dad, what was it like with the Russians?" "They liked me." "How?" "Weren't you in a prison camp?" "No." "I was a soldier in the Red Army." "I deserted from Germans long before they surrendered." "I served under stalin." "Why didn't you come home sooner?" "At last I'm home with you." "olga, you're all grown up." "You will not be OIga any more, but VoIga." "In memory of the Russians." "Leave the names as they are." "What is VoIga?" "VoIga, VoIga, dear river ..." "Let's sing together." "How?" "We don't know it." "You'II learn." "VoIga, dear river ..." "It's time for bed." "Why now when dad's home?" "Because he's tired." "We'II talk tomorrow." "Did you wait for me?" "You know I did." "only you ..." "Dad, I'm not sleeping." "I'II have to oil the bed." "Watch it!" "Dad, why they call it StaIin's organ?" "Quiet, dad's tired." "Then he should sleep." "Quiet, egg-head." "Dad, I've written a poem for you." "Do you want to hear it?" "Yes, but hurry." "Now when there's peace, dad will eat potatoes and peas." "Fine." "Good night." "Good night." "I've come to report." "Come in, MaIek." "Cousin Vanc said I should ..." "Activist Vanc is your cousin?" "Yes." "But you were in German army?" "They forcibly recruited me." "Then I escaped to the Russians." "To StaIin." "You were in Russian prison camp?" "I was a soldier in the Red Army." "I have my certificate." "Show me." "I'm not giving it to anyone." "This is the only evidence ... that I was with the Russians, serving under stalin." "I must save it." "Who told you that?" "Vanc." "alright." "What are you planning now?" "I'd Iike to work for the railway at the station ... as a signal man like before the war." "Good." "We need raiIwaymen." "I don't now what Mr. Medved will say." "We still live in his house." "He will say nothing." "We shall nationaIize and expropriate his land." "What?" "You heard me." "Expropriate." "You'II stay in your cottage and work for the railways." "Comrade MaIek!" "Why don't you let OIga to the youth meetings?" "She's too young." "She can't walk around at night." "Partisan women who won our freedom weren't too young?" "These are new times." "I'II take care of olga." "But if you take care..." "alright." "Death to fascism!" "God be with you." "Liberty to the people!" "Good day, Joze." "HaIIo." "Let's go for a drink." "I'm not thirsty." "Afraid of the wife?" "Idiot!" "Listen, I'II come around." "You have an empty stable?" "We have a pig." "See you, MaIek." "Come in!" "The vicar would Iike a word with you." "With me?" "Come in!" "The vicarage isn't a dangerous place." "10: 18. -10:18." "MaIek - the vicarage." "MaIek - the vicarage." "Write down." "Write down ..." "BoIshevik!" "Yes?" "Good afternoon." "Praise be to Lord!" "Sit down, MaIek." "You've been home for two weeks but haven't been to curch." "You've lost your faith with the bolsheviks." "I haven't!" "Look!" "I always carry an image of the Virgin Mary." "She saved my Iife at the front." "Then why do you now disavow Mary and the Lord?" "I don't." "The reds won here." "They want to ban worship of the Virgin Mary and the God, and change churches to warehouses." "So we Christians must believe in God even more." "It's not right that your family doesn't attend mass." "I've made a vow to give a candle on Assumption Day." "And come to church, too." "I will." "Hang on the wall the Virgin Mary's picture." "She saved you." "There are no more religious pictures." "Other day ... the communists tore down Christ from his cross." "impossible!" "still freshly painted." "Do your children know how to pray?" "I think so." "Do you?" "Yes." "Do you still know to sing hymns?" "Yes!" "Then pray at home and come to church." "Hang up holly pictures." "Don't become an antichrist." "What we have now without God and religion, is not good." "It can not last forever." "Praise be to Jesus!" "For ever, amen." "Did you go to confession?" "Of course not!" "article 21 ." "Pioneers must collaborate on outings, shows and ceremonies of the pioneer organization." "We have to look at article 20." "Teacher will ask tomorrow." "Good." "Now tell me if you know how to pray?" "I know, but I don't want to!" "Why not?" "Because there is no God!" "Who told you that?" "Comrade teacher told us." "And the president of the youth league." "That policeman?" "Anyway, it's not true." "God exists." "You should know how to pray." "But I do!" "Our father, bread is ours." "The more we eat the more is ours." "You brat!" "Before the war I was like you." "We have to put this on the wall." "Before I went to the front ... they said almost everyone dies there." "I went to confession." "The priest gave me this." "The Virgin Mary." "It says:" "Whoever carries it, will be saved." "I survived the bombing and stalin's organ." "What kind of instrument is StaIin's organ?" "silly!" "Our whole platoon died." "only three of us who had the Virgin Mary stayed alive." "Mary saved us so I have to give her a candle." "The youth league president says religion is opium of the people." "Opium?" "That's a devil!" "I promised Mary a candle on Assumption Day." "Let's sing a hymn!" "Birds fly under the sky, singing glory to Mary." "Mother of Jesus, creator of universe ..." "Are you mad?" "!" "What the devil are you singing?" "Everyone at KLOJ knows that you visited the priest." "Do you want to be bIack-Iisted by the secret police?" "Maybe you were with white guard during the war?" "What secret police?" "Why are you scaring me?" "We're practicing because we're going on a pilgrimage." "You're going nowhere!" "Before the war you weren't religious." "Now you pray and sing hymns." "Let's go inside." "I have to tell you something." "If Lesnik comes ..." "What would he want?" "Wait here." "If Lesnik comes, he must wait." "What would he want?" "Big things are going on." "You don't read the papers, you don't have a radio." "Where's Mimika?" "Working for Medved." "I told you she shouldn't work for him." "He's a kulak!" "But we live in his cottage." "It's over for kuIaks and priests." "You'II get land, if you're clever." "Land?" "Now, I'II rearrange the kitchen a little." "You don't need that." "We must be careful now when we have a freedom." "One wrong word and they can lock you up." "I'II get land because of these posters?" "Yes." "Land for those who work it." "That's agrarian reform." "The first to get land will be partisans and activists." "Then the poor and other people." "please, tell me what are you doing." "Quiet, Joze." "Mary saved my Iife." "religion is the opium of the people." "I'II hide them just in case." "It's not certain that you reds will always be in power." "You can hide them." "As long as I don't see you in church!" "But tomorrow I'm going on pilgrimage." "I promised." "Whom did you promise?" "The Virgin Mary." "bullshit!" "What Mary?" "Use your brain." "I promised the vicar." "Lucky you were with the bolsheviks." "It's vital ... that you have good reputation with the Russians." "If you're smart, you'II get meat as well as land." "What's all this?" "Vanc brought it." "He said I should hang up slogans ... instead of Jesus and Mary." "Is he completely mad?" "will he be crazy tomorrow when we'II have meat?" "What meat?" "Tonight they'II hide a cow in our stable." "Tomorrow there'II be a butchers there." "illegal?" "I don't like it." "Something might happen to you." "We must be careful now there's a freedom." "But I would also like you to eat meat sometime." "Once you said you'd be satisfied with potatoes." "I promised." "well, Vanc will be there, too." "He's member of KLOJ." "I don't like this." "If we're wise we'II also get land." "Land?" "I'm candidate for agrarian distribution." "Now you won't work for Medved but on your own land." "How about you taking the candle on a pilgrimage?" "You're crazy!" "Why would I go on a pilgrimage?" "Mary didn't save my Iife." "I mustn't completely lose Mary's favour." "You can go discreetly so that everyone won't see you." "You promised Mary, not me." "Mimika, it's land!" "We mustn't lose it." "Dad." "What?" "May I tell you a poem?" "alright." "To carry a candle, my dad won't go, coz' uncle Vanc told him so." "Now when there's no war we eat potatoes even more." "If we listen to uncle Vanc, we'II get pork for lunch." "Can't you think of anything better than your poems?" "Brat!" "Go to sleep!" "Stop fooling around!" "I thought I heard someone in our courtyard." "But I'm only dreaming." "Just dream." "This is the age of freedom." "I'm afraid of that small policeman." "He's fanatic." "bloody cow!" "Stop!" "Who's there?" "Activist." "What are you doing here?" "patrolling the village on behalf the KLOJ." "Our new government must be alert day and night." "I'm also patrolling." "I thought I heard the cow." "Me too!" "We have to watch out for illegal butchering." "There's no illegal butchering here, but we must be careful." "will you drink some?" "It's from the war." "German schnapps?" "Partisan brandy." "Here's some liver for breakfast." "And what shall I tell the kids?" "We'II burry the offal and keep the meat in your cellar." "Joze will stand guard and I will carry." "I want nothing to do with it!" "They won't arrest us if they don't get us." "Comrades under arms!" "Drive the enemy away." "Our land and see await us!" "Take a gun in hand." "Now, Iet it sing." "The enemy will feel its sting." "Hey comrades." "hello." "What's wrong with you?" "I came from the night shift and I can't sleep." "Anything new?" "Of course not!" "Where are the other members of your family?" "The boy's at school." "Mimika and olga are working at kuIaks." "We still live in Medved's cottage." "He gives us food." "On coupons we get almost nothing." "Criticizing, eh?" "God forbid!" "Just telling." "We'II take everything from his kind." "We're waiting for a Iow to carry out agrarian reforms." "clever." "If you'II be a good citizen you'II get land, too." "But I am." "Good, MaIek." "Where's your daughter?" "I told you." "She's working for Medved." "She's already a youth league member." "There's meeting tonight to cheer Tito and stalin." "She should come, too." "AII of you." "Let it be known whom we support in this village!" "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "Comrades under arms!" "Drive the enemy away." "Joze, stop it!" "Now we are in ..." "socialism." "That's right." "Who can explain it for us?" "Tincek." "It's like in the bible." "Now we're still not in heaven but in purgatory." "What heaven and purgatory?" "There's no God!" "I know that." "But we could say it's similar." "In communism it will be like in heaven ..." "In socialism is like on earth." "The vicar. 10 kilograms." "Cases." "Who or what is it?" "socialism." "Good." "Now the second case with a negative form." "There is no socialism." "There wasn't." "The dative." "I give the socialism ..." "An apple!" "We like socialism." "Accusative - fourth case." "We like socialism." "We're satisfied with socialism." "Very good." "Our partisans won our freedom hand in hand with the Red Army." "The brilliant general StaIin and marshal Tito ... defeated the occupying army." "Why are you exaggerating?" "Long live StaIin!" "Long live Tito!" "Long live the Soviet Union!" "Comrade!" "I'II write down 7 kilograms." "Long live our national liberation army with Comrade Tito at its head!" "We must think about life in the new YugosIavia." "In a new socialistic society under the slogan:" "Power to the workers!" "Long live the socialist youth league!" "What a world!" "It can't last forever." "These are crazy times." "Praise be to Jesus." "For ever, amen. -12 kilos." "Today we got 12 kilograms." "Dad, why are they yelling so much?" "These are such times." "Long live the transitional period!" "What are you saying?" "asshole!" "I brought a meat." "I'm not permitted to slaughter my own cattle." "What a country!" "It's best that you buy as much as possible." "Anyway, you don't risk anything." "Good luck!" "The devil will take everything!" "Comrade officer!" "What?" "Give me a hand." "Now we have a new government." "Yes." "I know what my duty is." "This land which passes over from the hands of kulaks ... to those who work it will bear ..." "The law about agrarian reform!" "What?" "They didn't tell me before." "It's in the papers!" "Look!" "The people's government has brought back old rights." "It's the end for Iand-owners." "That's mean I'II get ..." "Yes!" "You'II get land ... as you were in the Red Army." "I'II get land!" "Yes, if you listen to me." "Don't' go to church anymore." "socialism can do all that in nine months!" "Our new government is just the right one for us." "Now I will not only be a railway worker, but a man." "But where will agrarian committee get land?" "We'II take it from big landowners and kulaks." "The land, buildings and assets of churches and religious institutions are to be expropriated." "Today the centuries long struggle of SIovene peasants ... has been realized." "Land surplus above 20 ha per estate will be expropriated." "The reds come and say your land is yours no more." "They'II destroy the land!" "We shall divide the land after ten days." "Our new government has given us all this." "Long live comrade Tito!" "Now we've got socialism we can do whatever we like." "Each candidate will get as the commission decides." "Bring the posts with you." "The land must be cultivated by spring." "hallo, comrade." "Don't you know how to greet in the Christian way?" "Come here." "Listen, MaIek." "Church estates are expropriated without compensation." "Does it seem right that they steel from God?" "It was not my idea!" "Do you think that's right?" "How should I know?" "If the Iaw say so, than it's right." "I've heard that some candidates have asked for 2 hectares." "I'm not one of them." "But you'II take my land?" "Of course!" "And the church land too?" "Whatever they'II give me." "That would be steeling from God!" "It's God's land!" "But we poor people work it!" "If you take church land it won't bear fruit!" "cattle grazing on it will die!" "hall will destroy everything." "Remember that!" "You will not scare me." "religion is the opium of people." "What sort of propaganda is that?" "Have you forgotten who saved you at the front?" "You've sent your wife on a pilgrimage." "You've forgotten Mary and God!" "You're a big sinner!" "If the communists give me land, I'II take it." "From you I got nothing but penance and blessings." "Be off, Satan!" "You're an evil sinner." "This land passed ..." "With sweat and blood..." "will sing a song of work in spring..." "And abundant fruits in autumn." "It's quite all right, but I don't understand anything." "That's because you don't read books." "It's nice, especially when you tell it." "I'd Iike to be there when they divide the land." "I'd Iike to see the faces of Medved and other kuIaks, when we drive the posts in their land!" "The teacher wrote this." "It was checked by constable Edo." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "Fascism's already dead." "Sit down, Mr. Medved." "We'II see what liberty will bring to us." "What sort of post are those?" "Markers." "What markers?" "You don't have a land." "Not yet, but I'II get it." "Who will you get it from?" "From the agrarian commission." "And where will they get the land?" "You should know better than I." "You can't take stolen land!" "Can't you see the socialist slogan?" "Land for those who work it!" "When adults speak, children are quiet." "That was in the time of capitalism and imperialism." "Nowadays is different." "Today, youth league members ... are equal elements of socialist society." "OIga!" "What will you plough with if you get the land?" "We'II buy a cow and plough with the commune tractor." "I new it!" "First they'II plough with the commune tractor, than they'II communise the land." "Like the bolsheviks." "Everything went wrong in 1941 ... when there were no BoIsheviks or collectives." "Look!" "I said nothing when you stayed in my cottage." "But the land?" "If they give you my land, don't take it." "If I don't take it, someone else will." "Did I prevent you from working on the railways?" "Didn't I take care of your family when you were away?" "We all worked for you." "Now we'd Iike to work for ourselves." "You're talking like a lawyer." "Where did you learn that?" "With the bolsheviks, with stalin." "You'II choke on your BoIsheviks." "It'II be your turn first." "Let's not argue." "If they give you my land don't take it." "tell them you live in my cottage." "They should give you the vicar's land." "He says they should give me yours." "But Medved says take the vicar's land." "Understand?" "I don't care, as long as I get something." "Mimika, just come and work for bread." "God knows how the agrarian reform will be." "These kuIaks!" "As long as they could squeeze us ... they knew only the whip and profit." "Now they're sucking up." "Land for those who work it!" "If you don't take the land... you're indirectly supporting the kulaks." "olga, who did you get it from?" "From the policeman." "Just be careful that you don't get something else from him." "We're only friends." "There's no time for sentiment ... just for transformation of man." "I'II show you a transformation!" "So then ..." "rebellion will save us from the feudal torches ..." "Let's go!" "Today, we'II divide up kuIaks' land." "Comrade MaIek, Iet's go!" "You go instead of me." "After all, I was a German soldier." "Mary saved me." "The vicar threatens me... that my land will be barren." "Medved hates me." "Do I realy deserve anything?" "Give it to me!" "I'II go!" "Let's go!" "You, comrade MaIek?" "Me!" "Comrade Joze won't go?" "Aren't women good enough?" "Fuck you, Joze!" "Let's go." "Long live agrarian reform!" "Don't' take less than 2 hectares!" "Today, we've realized the centuries long struggle ... of poor SIovene peasants." "We've done in 9 months ... what capitalism and feudalism couldn't achieve." "Who wrote this?" "The girl?" "Me." "Good, isn't it?" "My ass!" "Where is Tito and stalin mentioned?" "What about our Communist party?" "only some feudal heroes." "Long live Tito!" "Long live StaIin!" "That's good." "Long live the Communist party!" "Dad, can I tell you a poem?" "Go ahead." "while dividing the fields, dad sits on threes." "Instead of him, mother fights for land." "bloody brat!" "My strong father was StaIin's soldier." "Mind now." "One, two, tree!" "Let everyone see we've got electricity." "But you'II have to pay for it." "So what?" "You see, you can't get away from me." "Dad, it's shaking them." "It still give us a shock sometimes, but we'II get proper fittings." "You're all mad!" "Can you imagine that all this land belongs to us?" "will you be a farmer now or still a railwayman?" "Both!" "We can't live on one wage." "The railway job is secure." "fertilizing your land?" "Yes." "When the land's manured by dad, the house smells bad." "When you'II eat beans, potatoes and corn ... you won't think it smells." "Where are you off to?" "To get sausages." "Where?" "Somewhere." "would you buy some meat?" "Now we have land I Iive in honest way." "Me, too." "That's the best way." "What's the matter?" "Did you shit in your pants?" "No, I was only manuring the land." "The whole YugosIav railways smells because of that." "Am I seeing right?" "Is he out of his mind?" "Let's go!" "Stop it!" "We'II report and arrest you." "You're making a star from shit!" "What do you mean?" "I'm making it from corn." "The star is the symbol of the revolution." "Now the corn will grow so big... it'II be seen from far away." "Are you really crazy or are just pretending?" "He's pretending." "You can't have a star form manure on the slope." "Fix it at once!" "Look at these potatoes!" "Like marrows." "I've seen neighbour's and they look like plums." "The first socialist potatoes." "Be quiet, fools!" "Now you're kuIak, too." "Brat!" "Me, a kulak?" "well, you're right." "Of course I'm kuIak." "A socialist kuIak." "Quiet, idiots!" "It's Sunday, but agrarian farmers are working." "We have to." "During the week we have to go to our job." "And on Sundays we work in the fields." "How big and fat these socialist potatoes are!" "Like marrows." "You can see they're from the one who works the land." "Did you know that my dad is also kuIak?" "Shut up!" "You're kuIak, too?" "God Lord!" "Don't listen to the kid." "He doesn't know what he's saying." "If I were kuIak it's not your business." "I'm a socialist kuIak." "Then they'II screw you, as well." "What a nice potatoes!" "That's because they're socialist." "Think what they'd be like in communism." "Here's some meat." "Cut on the black." "To remind you of your first potatoes." "Listen!" "We don't want to be punished for your meat." "You won't if you eat it in secret." "Why we always have to hide your meat?" "You don't need to understand everything." "In socialism, we butcher on the black." "In communism we'II butcher in public." "What that means, on the black?" "black cows?" "My god!" "Are you nuts?" "Thank's for the meat, uncle Vanc." "Shut up, brat!" "Do you want them to lock me up?" "It's you!" "Yes, it's me." "What are you doing here?" "I came to invite you to celebration this evening." "You have to come." "I'II ask dad." "Now the youth league is your dad ... and me as its president." "AII right, I'II come." "Where did you get this meat?" "Cut on the black?" "I have to check what people in the village eat." "We must prosecute illegal butchers... as the workers in town are hungry." "Where did you get this meat?" "uncle Vanc brought it." "He said it was bought with his coupons ... because he doesn't eat meat." "Vanc, the member of KLOJ?" "If it wasn't from Vanc I wouldn't say nothing... because of you." "Can I give you a piece?" "You must be hungry." "I am a member of security." "I can't eat on duty." "It's really obtained with coupons." "Vanc brought it to mother." "He likes her, but don't tell dad." "Don't tell anyone." "I won't." "See you latter." "We should agree on volunteer projects." "We'II have a competition." "My group will be the best!" "Thanks for meat." "Youth from the other village ... have found a Iot of colorado beetles." "We should have a competition to destroy them." "Wasn't the policeman here?" "Did he see you frying?" "No." "hello." "Comrade officer!" "Did you butcher on the black to get meat?" "No!" "I got it at the MaIeks." "They said you gave it with your food coupons." "You know I don't eat meat so I gave it to relatives." "I won't say anything." "You better be quiet, too." "It's good you're here." "Has something happened?" "Did you give meat to the policeman?" "Did you lie to me?" "!" "He came when I was frying." "would you Iike them to put me in jail?" "It's all over." "They'II report me to the secret police ... and throw me out of the KLOJ." "AII because of you!" "Now I'II have to say where I got the meat from." "They'II arrest me because I didn't report Lesnik." "It'II all come out!" "Why are you shouting?" "Edo promised that he won't tell anyone." "I told him... that you gave the meat to mum because you Iike her." "What's all this?" "calm down, Joze." "I meant because you Iike us all." "Let's go and pick more potatoes!" "You'II manage as you're member of the KLOJ." "It's easy for you to say." "Joze, wait a minute." "Do you think it's really so dangerous?" "How should I know!" "Damn, now in freedom you never know... what you can do and what you can't." "At least in dictatorship you know what's forbidden." "They can lock you up for one wrong word or a piece of meat." "actually, I came to warn you." "Now you're behaving like some kind of kuIak." "Me?" "people envy you because your harvest is so good." "Yes, but I spread the most manure." "I don't hear you saying Long live Tito or stalin." "StaIin wants to have collectives, but I don't want to give my properties." "If StaIin wants them, we'II have them, too." "What I say now is worth 10 years in jail." "Don't get upset." "Come here." "really?" "!" "Yes, but be quiet." "That's why there's shortage and we mustn't mess with meat." "You should keep mentioning StaIin." "Understand?" "Death to fascism!" "Liberty to the people!" "What's this?" "In our house I don't hear StaIin's name... and USSSR mentioned any more." "In these times you should mention it." "You, Tincek, at school, and you VoIga, at meetings." "That's right, Joze." "What's going on?" "Hero StaIin's head will never drop dead." "Come, olga." "I'II take you home." "I can walk." "Then I'II walk, too." "I'II leave the bike here." "Stop it!" "What would dad say if he heard?" "I didn't say anything about meat." "But it was purchased with coupons." "Now we should be just friends." "We have to be responsible now." "Who told you that?" "You did, at the meeting." "Agrarian thief!" "Leave my apples alone!" "Are you blind, comrade?" "I'm not comrade but a gentleman." "gentleman is capitalistic expression." "Shut up!" "I don't want you to taking apples from my land." "The tree's growing on my land." "Look!" "Maybe it's on your land, but the branches are on mine." "Don't you step on my land." "You won't squeeze us any more." "socialism exists... so we poor peasants can have our own tree." "Don't argue." "Everyone is listening." "The whole village should hear this!" "This tree has roots on agrarian land." "If you were after my land ..." "Now, when MaIek's got a little, he wants more." "He's just socialist kuIak." "Don't steal!" "I'm not steeIing." "The tree's on my land." "The roots are on my land." "It's not my fault it grew sideways." "calm down." "Let them have these apples." "Nobody steps on kuIaks land from socialist land." "Now my dad is also kuIak." "Shut up!" "These are different times." "Now we have socialism." "Whose tree is it?" "The one it's leaning to or the one who has its roots?" "I wasn't one of stalin's soldiers for nothing!" "Don't burst yourself, damn communist!" "It's not the apples." "It's about rights and socialism." "Once you said you'd be satisfied with three potatoes." "Now you have as many as you Iike!" "I'II be satisfied when Medved eats potatoes, too." "In socialism we're all equal." "He's nothing better than me." "That's because he doesn't fear God." "What are kuIaks?" "Those who had too much land... which they didn't work themselves." "They exploited crofters and vine-workers." "My dad is also kuIak." "He can't be." "What kind of kuIak he is?" "He doesn't exploit others." "My dad is s socialist kuIak." "Just write." "And don't talk about socialist kuIaks." "I've already finished." "Then sit still." "Bring the notebook so I can check for mistakes." "Your father should come to school tomorrow." "May I have my note book?" "I'II give it to your father." "Good day." "Why don't you greet like young communist?" "We say 'hello, comrade.'" "hello, comrade." "Don't' you know the Christian greetings?" "Praise be to Jesus." "For ever, amen." "Who's your family?" "The MaIeks." "Why do you never come to church?" "But we did." "When?" "Last year for Easter." "Last year!" "You should come to church every Sunday," "I know." "Is something wrong?" "I think it is." "Everything I do is wrong." "Like what?" "Tomorrow you must report to the teacher at school." "Me?" "Come in." "We have a Iot to discuss." "Sit down, MaIek." "Tincek isn't a bad student... but he's always thinking up some nonsense." "Yesterday I checked his book and look what I found!" "What's this?" "The USSR?" "Look what's written next to it." "uncle StaIin Shoot Russians." "CLP" "Communists Love Power." "bloody brat!" "Why would StaIin shoot Russians?" "I was there and I didn't see anything like that." "And what's this Communists Love Power?" "It's not funny." "I should report this." "Anyone would think you teach him that." "Me?" "But how?" "And this?" "Hero StaIin's head will never drop dead." "That seems all right to me." "StaIin's soldier was my dad, agrarian hero an kuIak, red." "What kind of poem is that?" "I just don't know." "And yesterday he said there are kuIaks in socialism ... and that you're one of them." "What shall I do with him?" "Don't permit him to write such political themes." "He should write about spring, bees, but not StaIin." "But Vanc says we must repeat StaIin and USSR every day." "He's a good activist, but sometimes exaggerates a bit." "And why StaIin?" "We've got our president who is more humane." "That's true." "Meat." "I've got something for you." "We butchered this year for the first time." "please, take it." "Don't you know that in socialism... teachers mustn't accept gifts?" "What if I leave it on the table?" "That would be all right." "And watch on your son's behavior." "I shall." "bloody brat!" "Can't you play with a ball?" "You wouldn't have to make up those stupid poems!" "Leave him alone." "Who's kuIak?" "But you said it yourself." "What did I say?" "Eat up, but don't break the branches." "I won't." "I'II be careful." "Thief!" "Leave our cherry three alone!" "Can't you see it's on our church land?" "Take it easy." "The tree is ours." "Don't you see the markers?" "You're even stealing the green cherries." "Come down, you brat!" "The cherries are ours." "Yours?" "Look at the marker!" "What marker!" "Look!" "Here it is, see?" "You won't fool me." "Don't be a thief if you're greedy and BoIshevik!" "If I wanted to give you the tree, I mustn't." "The state put it under my care." "The tree is ours, you antichrist." "It wasn't enough that you and the vicar drugged us... with the opium of the people." "Now you'd Iike to devour our cherries." "You devil!" "You've become greedy for everything." "Man is our greatest wealth!" "He must know how to say no." "That's why I say Nyet." "Dad's quarreIIing again." "Forget him." "Let's go on with talking." "Who'II calm him down now that mother's in town?" "The whole village can hear." "So why should we?" "Don't shout, antichrist!" "Once you served HitIer." "You bloody witch!" "I fought on the side of stalin and our Tito... and you sleep by the side of your vicar." "We know how many abortions that caused." "And what about that time you were at the front... and German soldiers where flying around your Mimika" "like bees around the hive?" "What did you say?" "And Vanc slept more often at your place than at home." "What about that?" "You should clean your own house first." "What's the matter?" "Is it true that soldiers were at our house during the war?" "Yes." "Was your mother kind to them?" "Yes." "Did she give them anything?" "Yes." "What?" "Water." "Water?" "Nothing else?" "She said she'd give them everything she gives you." "Damn!" "She said maybe our dad in Germany... asks some woman for water." "Did those soldiers go into the house?" "Yes." "Did they sleep here, too?" "Yes." "One or two?" "Ten?" "A hundred!" "Here, with your mother, at night?" "I don't know ..." "Yes, of course." "And uncle Vanc, too?" "Yes." "He said that you asked him to." "I'm going to get drunk." "You won't see me any more." "Where's dad and Tincek?" "I don't know." "It's expensive in town." "What's wrong?" "The vicar's Roza came because of cherries." "She wanted to hurt dad." "She said the soldiers often slept at our house." "He didn't believe that, didn't he?" "No!" "So he asked me." "And?" "I just wanted to tell him how good and kind you are." "I thought that dad will love you even more." "And what did you tell him?" "That German soldiers were in the house ... and you gave them everything you'd give to dad." "You stupid!" "bloody brat!" "I'd love to trash you!" "Now go to the pub and tell dad you made it all up!" "Going to the pub?" "I've got the reason." "I've got some good news." "VoIga will get job in the cooperative." "Let's go and tell Mimika." "Go yourself, Iike during the war." "You can sleep with her again." "I'm going under a train." "Are you out of your mind?" "I know everything." "What do you know?" "I told him you slept with mother during the war." "How?" "During the war I just didn't sleep at all!" "I'II just pickup my things then I'II go." "You can't believe such crap!" "I'II hang myself." "tell me, was it all true or not?" "If what was true?" "That German soldiers slept in our house every day?" "Who told you that?" "I made it all up to praise the mother." "Leave me alone!" "How can you believe such things?" "What we think is important." "And no one else." "I was so frightened." "silly!" "Dad, can I tell you the poem?" "Be quiet!" "only if it's not political." "AII this pointless fuss, mum slept alone like us." "Brat!" "Now you'II work here." "I'II buy and sell and you do the card-fiIe." "Understand?" "alright." "I don't know why everyone picks on you and the MaIeks?" "Anyway, we'II get on okay." "I'm going now." "See that it's all registered." "Death to fascism!" "Freedom to the people!" "Be good." "I got you this job." "I never forget my family although I end up in trouble." "I'm going to the KLO." "Death to fascism!" "Freedom to the people!" "Good." "Just keep on working." "Death to fascism!" "Freedom to the people!" "We've been looking for a worker for the co-op store." "I recommended you." "Your dad was StaIin's soldier." "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't get the job." "Watch out, someone could see you." "I'm working." "But I got this job for you." "To be together." "Me at the police and you at the co-op." "Are you afraid?" "I hope nothing's happened yesterday." "I mean, I'm not...you know." "Don't worry!" "I was careful." "hello, comrade OIga MaIek!" "We work here, not talk!" "hello, comrade Marica." "It's raining." "Thanks God." "hall!" "AII the crops will be destroyed." "Good Lord!" "It's all over." "I'm scared." "Don't be, I'm with you." "Lord, if you avenge me like this... it should hail on you, too!" "Don't be stupid!" "Mary, you're doing this because of that pilgrimage." "It should hail on you, too!" "Can't I really have anything?" "I Iove you anyway, dad." "I should mention the resolution of the Informbureau ..." "Do you understand this?" "politics is a whore." "I don't understand anything." "Doesn't matter." "They won't tell us truth, anyway." "What's up?" "Listening to the request program?" "Shut up!" "Tito's speaking." "We've quarreled with Russians." "I'm going to district committee for instructions." "Death to fascism!" "Yes, we're listening." "Tomorrow is a meeting of KLOJ and youth leagues." "Take StaIin's picture down!" "Instructors are coming from the district committee." "Joze, listen." "What is it?" "A train is coming." "It's over with stalin." "How, why?" "Don't mention him ever again." "Even that I was his soldier?" "No!" "Now go inside and take StaIin's pictures down!" "We've now quarreIed with stalin." "Tomorrow we'II get the orders." "No more StaIin!" "If you say so." "It started." "What?" "The collapse." "The communists have quarreled with the Russians." "I said it can't last long without respect or religion." "What kind of world would it be... with the MaIeks as landlords?" "You're always right." "Our father, make people believe in church again and let the land be in the right hands." "Thank you for the Informbureau resolution which will turn people away from BoIshevism." "It didn't happen overnight." "We kept quiet." "It's all over." "Any questions?" "Nothing can happen now if you ask them." "We immediately took down StaIin's pictures." "Was that right?" "Yes." "Throw them out of all business premises and schools." "I'II do that after the meeting." "But Tito shouted 'StaIin' at the end of his speech," "They say StaIin didn't know anything about resolution." "He ordered it!" "Tito had to say 'Long live StaIin' not to offend feelings of our people." "You can't educate them in one hour -they need a day." "And those that don't comply?" "Arrest and imprison them!" "We've arrested one or two of our ministers." "Open your eyes!" "Maybe StaIin supporters are hiding in your village." "We should arrest someone and frighten him as example to the rest." "Man is our greatest wealth... so we must always control him." "Vanc is the biggest follower of stalin." "He's also a relative of Joze MaIek who was in the Red Army." "Come on!" "Those two can't even spell the word Informbureau." "familiarity, comrade!" "Bring that activist of yours." "We'II question him." "Eight scytes." "Eight?" "Four rakes." "What's going on?" "Quiet!" "StaIin supporter's daughter!" "It's the end between us." "Why would they interrogate me?" "I knew that something was wrong all the time." "How come you're already home?" "The lesson's over." "They have a meeting." "It's because we've quarrel with the Russians." "They've taken Vanc for enquiries." "Edo doesn't speak to me." "He said you're an Informbureau supporter." "I'm what?" "An Informbureau supporter." "What does it mean, now?" "How should I know?" "Edo doesn't speak to me." "I don't care about Edo!" "It concerns us." "Edo doesn't speak to me." "Shut up about that policeman!" "I'II kill myself." "What is it now?" "Stop writing your poems." "It isn't right time for that." "What is it now?" "She's pregnant!" "That's because of the meetings." "No, it's because of policeman." "Damn the world!" "Damn politics!" "I'm here officially." "I'II show you officially!" "You'II come with me to the committee." "Am I under arrest?" "It's an enquiry." "We're interrogating everyone." "Man is our greatest wealth so we must control him." "Edo, tell me ..." "I'm here officially." "Than tell me officially... what have my dad and uncle Vanc done?" "Don't ask me." "I am here as an official figure, now." "Then I'm telling you officially that I'm pregnant." "Oh, God!" "You're not guilty of anything." "If I came back alive from two armies" "I will survive this, too." "Take care!" "Let's go." "I'm coming." "I'm not letting you go." "I was an activist." "I was always for Tito." "What have I done wrong?" "You mentioned StaIin too often." "So others did." "You too." "Quiet!" "I'II ask the questions and you write." "No familiarity!" "Come in!" "hello!" "Death to fascism!" "Freedom to the people!" "Your details!" "Name?" "Are you joking?" "You know me." "Occupation?" "Agrarian Iandowner." "Aren't you a railway worker?" "Agrarian Iandowner railway worker." "Decide wich!" "I am railway worker and also an agrarian Iandowner." "Date of birth?" "20." "VII. 1914." "Sit down!" "We know everything." "Now just tell us." "What should I tell?" "Everything!" "How you came to the Soviet Army, what you did and why weren't you in prison camp?" "I escaped from the Germans, you know that." "With the Russians I just peeled the potatoes." "What?" "KartofeI, I mean potatoes." "But I didn't fire a shot not at Russians or Germans." "Which army were you with?" "German or Russian?" "I was StaIin's soldier." "I have certificate." "What certificate?" "Certificate of discharge from the Red Army." "Show me!" "Write." "Discharged from the Red Army." "Sorry, but I'm not giving it to anyone." "Why not?" "Who told you that?" "Vanc, the activist." "What's your daughter's name?" "OIga." "And how do you call her?" "VoIga." "VoIga?" "Why?" "Don't we have our own rivers?" "Why do you always boast of being StaIin's soldier?" "Why do you never mention Tito?" "But Tito is also Russian!" "What?" "Write that down!" "Who's Russian?" "Tito!" "You know he was sent to Moscow before the war." "The Russians, maybe StaIin himself, got rid of him." "Then they sent us his double." "So actually a Russian led this revolution." "That's why we got a shortage and agrarian reform." "And who told you that?" "Vanc!" "He said he heard that at the KLOJ." "Not here!" "And to whom did you tell all this?" "No one." "only you, but don't tell it to anybody." "It'II cost you ten years in jail." "Are you fucking with us?" "With you?" "Why?" "It's alright!" "tell us what sort of connections you had with Vanc?" "What did he say at your place?" "That we must be red and for the Russians." "Write that down." "He said religion is the opium of the people." "Write that down." "That seemed all right to me, but it didn't seem right he was smuggling meat." "But you've also eaten it, comrade president." "And you, comrade policeman, and comrade teacher, too." "Enough of that!" "What meat?" "Nothing!" "Nothing important." "Did Vanc bring you any propaganda material?" "Yes." "Land for those who work it." "That's why I got the land." "Did he say anything against the government?" "No!" "He said we'II all be the government." "But I didn't believe him." "And how did you behave on your land?" "I don't understand." "Now listen to what your son wrote at school." "Read Tincek's essay." "My dad's a socialist kuIak." "He's a good man." "First he was with the Germans, then with the Russians." "Then one day he came home." "That was the happiest day of my Iife." "Now he works on the railway and has nice brown eyes." "Then mother got us agrarian land - 3 hectares." "Dad knows how to get along." "Now we've got the land he's also kuIak." "A socialist kuIak." "He'II screw them all!" "I Iike to hear him say:" "Now I'm kuIak, too." "Did he really write that?" "Do you know what we do with kuIaks?" "I don't know." "We imprison them!" "Even socialist ones?" "There aren't any socialist kuIaks, you fool!" "Thanks God!" "Now we all have to change." "We must reeducate our hearts." "No more StaIin's soldiers." "So being StaIin's soldier is not important now?" "No more!" "StaIin's just the worst ..." "Shit, that's impossible!" "Good!" "Now just go home." "Can I really go?" "Work your land and listen to the radio, not to Vanc." "And don't talk too much." "I won't talk at all." "Nothing!" "That's right." "Death to fascism!" "Freedom to the people!" "Is Vanc really guilty?" "He must have done something." "well, if I'd send that fool to the secret service, they'd arrest even me." "What shall we do with Vanc?" "Take him to town for further enquiries." "I must also discover some informbureau members." "I didn't come here on holliday." "Is Tito also a Russian ...?" "Damn people!" "MaIek has aggravating circumstances although he's a fool." "Which ones?" "He was in the Red Army." "Then he also has extenuating circumstances." "Which are?" "He was also with the Germans." "although we discovered only one Informbureau member, you should open your eyes!" "There are certainly more hiding." "If necessary, I'II come back and we'II create them." "We should also put pressure on agrarian smaIIhoIders." "The Russians blame us for not finishing coIIectivization." "We'II take their land and found farmers cooperatives." "We're expecting new instructions." "Dad's not guilty." "They won't arrest him." "Whoever arrests dad should be cursed real bad." "Shut up!" "And leave StaIin out of your poems." "Are you waiting for me?" "What did they want from you?" "That little devil with his essays!" "Stop!" "He told only the truth." "Who allowed him to write the truth?" "Then what can I write?" "Nothing!" "Now I want to hear in our house ... only Communist Party of yugoslavia." "Then I'm not VoIga any more?" "What VoIga?" "But you gave her that name." "She was christened OIga, which means she's OIga." "You've got a letter." "An official envelope." "Damn you, Joze!" "I was always for Tito and YugosIavia." "Quiet!" "I'm taking him to the station." "I'II hand him over to the police at the train." "If they call you for a witness, tell them that I was always for our side." "You were for stalin." "They'II let you go." "Why did you put me in it?" "Did you say he's Russian?" "I didn't accuse him." "Poor devil." "They should lock up someone else instead." "They'II only interrogate him." "It's just a precaution." "hello!" "Did you see that?" "Edo's speaking to me again." "Now I feel sorry for Vanc, poor devil." "He took this socialism too seriously." "As long as they didn't take you." "Edo is coming!" "At the interrogation" "I pretended that I'm stupid so they released me." "Open the letter." "Maybe it's from the secret service." "They don't write letters." "You know that I Iove you." "But I didn't know if I'm aloud to." "Now you're here!" "we shall create a Iarge cooperative ..." "What?" "We shall therefore expropriate your land to make Iong-term improvements ..." "This comes in effect one month after ..." "They've taken our land." "I knew it!" "It was too god to last long." "Why does every government first give, than take away?" "I won't be able to say:" "My land, my tree..." "Now it'II all be collective." "If a man doesn't work for himself then who will?" "It'II pass." "olga will have a kid." "He won't know nothing about StaIin or land reform or the war." "He won't know that we ever had a war." "Is it right that we have to be a fools so they leave us alone?" "I don't know ..." "No, it's not right!"