Tag #112032 - Interview #94906 (Arkadi Yurkovetski )

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My father told me that when Tomashpol residents heard about the revolution of 1917 they didn’t quite know what it meant for them. Since my father’s family was poor the revolution didn’t change their situation. As for wealthy farmers, most of them were sent in exile to Siberia. After the revolution a Jewish kolkhoz [12] ‘Giant’ was formed in Tomashpol. They grew cattle and wheat.
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Arkadi Yurkovetski