Latest news from the 'Famine Districts'. May 1935. A Young Communist, brigadier of the field brigade of the New Life collective farm (Gorodishenski District, Stalingrad Region,Lower Volga) reading a newspaper Stalingradskaya Pravda aloud to the young people during the dinner hour. The solid and healthy farmers listen with a mixture of amusement and resentment to a Russian translation of foreign press stories of 'famine' in their own neighborhood - the Lower Volga.