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Benjamin Levin - Ben Knows the Peasant Ways

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Benjamin Levin - Ben Knows the Peasant Ways
Benjamin Levin - Ben Knows the Peasant Ways
Transcript: We went on a couple actions, like cutting telephone poles was one. A bridge to destroy something. I wasn't so active, because I was just going with them as amateur. So they always took me just amateur, not because they needed me. But they liked always to go with me because I knew the forest, and had the instinct in the forest how to move and where to go and what's going on. Especially went to the farmers and to the peasants for food. They didn't have the slightest idea of where food is, by the peasants. Like, for example, if they need garlic, they were asking for garlic, and the peasants said no. They didn't know. I went right away in the attic, and usually there are in the chimney, it has to be strings, and it's hanging garlic. Or they need underwear. They didn't know where. I said wintertime, you go out on the fence and you pick up. It's hanging, see? Set out to dry. Now, the most interesting thing is they didn't know how to catch a pig. They were running after a pig, this guy didn't know how to stop him. I told him, you lift up one leg on the pig, and the pig stops.
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