from the memoirs of vasily sharapov, chairman of the minsk city executive committee from 1945 to the sixties. the shortage of seed potatoes was especially strong, so by decision of the city executive committee all canteens... were ordered to collect potato peelings with eyes. the initiative of the minsk residents was supported throughout the republic. by the sowing season of forty-fifth , grain began to arrive from the republics of the soviet union. wagons arrived at railway stations. and again there was a problem with delivery. they used everything opportunities. the remaining transport, horses, oxen, became draft animals. cows, but in most cases the seed had to be carried manually. the statistics of the first post-war year are astonishing: more than 100,000 collective farmers carried 700,000 poods of grain on themselves over distances of 20 km on average, taking care of every grain. thus, the battle for the first post-war harvest began. secretary of the telekhan district party committee petrov, military commissar burykin and komsomol worker samarina, entering the house of the edito