“We children would run to the collective farm stubble-field to gather up the stalks,” remembered Kostiantyn Mochulsky, then aged eight. “Mounted patrolmen would chase after the children, slashing at them with rawhide whips. But I collected some ten kilograms of grain.”46 Some failed to evade the overseers. A girl from Kharkiv province once succeeded in quietly gathering some wheat ears, but on the way home from the fields she met three young Komsomol members. They took her wheat and beat her “so severely that there were bruises on my shoulders and lower legs long afterwards.”47 Perhaps she was
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