Communists are used to ruling everything and orchestrating all behavior among the underlings.
The Commie bosses could order the remaining hens to lay more eggs. Problem solved.
The Eva Gabor character on Green Acres used to politely ask the hen to lay another egg and she got what she wanted. But that was in the USA.
Oh, and just what would you refuse to do if EvaGabor asked you nicely?
Have you looked at her in those series? Crawling across broken glass is not impossible if she were to ask “nicely”.
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