Greenhouse society: the subsistence economy and house-holding

My vyzhivaem, kto kak mozhet (‘We are surviving, as one somehow does’). We are edinstvennyi narod (‘the only nation’) that does not ask for and does not count on the help of the state. My prosto privykli – tol’ko na sebia (‘We’ve just got used to it – only relying on ourselves’). In summer, we grow vegetables in the sovkhoz, ¹ and at the beginning of winter we make a living by standing in the market and trading. Marta Ivanovna’s interview with a newspaper reporter ‘Eleven months passed’,