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All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others. Rabasaare. Estonia. Part 4

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Whilst the prols lived in cramped basic shared accommodation, the plant manager, had a relatively luxurious home. well done Commrade Kuuskma

We visit, join me.

Now that was fun, a springy old ladder across a very deep cellar.
Ant Middleton, come get some!

The high demand for manpower slowly decreased as the years went by innovation and technical progress grew.

The manual cutting of peat by hand ended in 1960 and the complete process of drying and cleaning of the lump peat was fully mechanised a year later.

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I wonder if Commrade Kuuskma ended up in the Gulag

The tomatoes long withered and dead, the clothes pegs still on the washing line, a line being owned by creeping vines

Hidden under the detritus was a weak and mostly missing floor, that was bowing and sagging under my weight, i didn't trust the joists they were pretty rotten too, it was now a case of in and out of windows as best I could if i wanted to further my little mooch.

School records? from 1984

how in god's name did they flush these top of the range bogs?

A very handy stepping stone to make my escape

.......to be continued