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Gorky Region, Kstovsky District, 1943. The chairman of the collective farm "Red Plowman", a mother-heroine raising 11 children, Pelageya Andreevna Kasatkina transferred about 28 thousand rubles to the National Defense Fund, and also sent 12 poods of bread and 30 poods of potatoes and other vegetables ... This initiative was supported by the collective farmers of the entire region. In the name of P.A. Kasatkina, letters of gratitude from the soldiers of the Red Army began to come from the front. P.A. Kasatkina, at home, surrounded by children, sits at the table, examines letters that came to her from the soldiers from the front, as well as from grateful residents of the regions liberated from the occupation. One of the eldest sons of Pelageya Andreevna, Boris, reads a letter at the table to everyone present. Members of the family of P.A. Kasatkina, headed by her herself, load potatoes and carrots from their stocks onto carts to be sent to the residents of Donbass who have suffered from the occupation. Some of the younger children of P.A. Kasatkina stand at the fence, watching, one of the boys plays the accordion, raising the spirit of enthusiasm, participating in the loading. PA Kasatkina and her eldest daughter take out a basket of potatoes from the yard, unload the potatoes into a basket on a cart. One of Kasatkina's sons is sitting on a cart next to baskets of carrots, next to a cart in the straw is a goat. Another of the sons pours carrots from a bucket into a basket on a cart. A wagon train from the carts of the P.A. Kasatkina family, driven by her children, drives along the street of the village of Chernukha. A wagon train from the Alga collective farm, Sergach District, Gorky Region, with food collected for residents of the Kalinin Region who suffered from Nazi occupation, moves along a rural street, past a windmill. At the head of the convoy on the first cart is collective farm chairman Mustafa Saberovich Saberov, who, after the death of his eldest son Murtaza at the front, donated his personal savings in the amount of 110 thousand rubles to the country's Defense Fund. Following the wagon train are sheep, cows, which are also driven to the farms of the Kalinin region destroyed by the Nazis.

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P. Oppenheim