ABSTRACT
PEASANT WOMEN, left (pointing): That’s where we stopped three Nazi tanks. But the apple orchard was already destroyed.
OLD MAN, right: Our beautiful dairy farm: a ruin. GIRL TRACTORIST: I started the fire myself, Comrade. (Pause.) DELEGATE: Comrades! Listen to the report. The
Collective Goat Farm Rosa Luxemburg, formerly located right here in this valley, moved East, on orders from the government, at the approach of Hitler’s Armies. Now their plan is to return. (Delegates on right nod.) But the people of the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk, their neighbors, propose, instead, that the valley be assigned to them. They would like to plant vineyards and orchards there. Representing the Reconstruction Commission, I request that these two collective farms decide between themselves whether the Rosa Luxemburg should return here or not.
