Confiscations in a Cossack Village (1929)


Description: The Cossack village (stanitsa) of Novo-Pokrovsk, 1929. Employees of the NKVD conduct a search in the home of the kulak Chernov. They find grain hidden in the pigsty. Witnesses watch. The grain is poured into sacks and carted away. Poor and middle peasants try the case in public. Sovkinozhurnal no. 72.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000)

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