The text briefly mentions the history of the Slovak Commune emigrant cooperative, in which a group of emigrants from Ostrava also went to the Soviet Union. Attention is paid to internal conflicts and disputes over property, which led to a change of leadership, the expulsion of a fifth of the members, and the rapid disintegration of the commune after arriving in the village of Frolovo in the Ust-Chopersk district of the Stalingrad Governorate. The fates of several former members from Ostrava and their families who, after leaving the commune, where they lost their property, sought sustenance in the mines and smelters of the nearby Donbas, respectively later also in Kuzbass and elsewhere. The more fortunate returned home in the late 1930s, but some of them became victims of political repression during the Great Terror.