"For Allan's father, the whole thing had acquired a personal dimension since Lenin had forbidden all private ownership of land the very day after Allan's father had purchased 130 square feet on which to grow Swedish strawberries. ‘The land didn’t cost more than four rubles but they won't get away with nationalizing my strawberry patch,’ wrote Allan's father in his very last letter home, including ‘now it's war!’"
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