Document 119

Letter of appeal from five female kolkhoz farmers in Ivanovo Oblast to Krest'ianskaia Gazeta, 21 November 1938

RGAE, f. 396, op. 11, d. 19, ll. 323-324. Original manuscript.

A Hooligan is Being Concealed

Former kolkhoz chairman N. Kh. Panteleev of the Stalin Kolkhoz under the Gorkinsky Village Soviet in Yur'ev-Pol'sky Raion, Ivanovo Oblast, abused kolkhoz farmers in every way, scolded them with foul language and called them thieves. He hit the kolkhoz accountant a woman and a herdsboy. He called some women thieves. Like he scolded Anna Matveevna Osipova right at the general meeting: "Bitch, thief, pilferer," and she is not guilty of anything. This kolkhoz chairman N. Kh. Panteleev engaged in padding of labordays in his favor and appropriated fifty six rubles of kolkhoz money. Because of him a horse died, a seven-year-old mare. One girl on our kolkhoz stated that this kolkhoz chairman N. Kh. Panteleev tried to rape her, and the militia station made them confront each other. And now a year will soon have passed, but all the cases have been covered up. An investigation was under way for six months, the investigation ended, the file was turned over to the procurator of [the town of] Yur'ev-Pol'sky, but it has been lying in the procurator's office for two months and the whole case has faded away. And this hooligan brags and taunts us women: "Whatever rottin things you do to me, nothin will ever happen to me and I will never be locked up."

We women ask for help through Krest'ianskaia Gazeta to start legal proceedings against this hooligan for his abuse of women, for beating the accountant and for all his wicked actions, we ask you to look for all of the lowdown things he has done.

Signed: five signatures by female kolkhoz farmers