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Germany/ The socialist pig that survived the system change

2023-11-17 17:33:37Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Germany/ The socialist pig that survived the system change
The socialist pig that survived the system change

Life in socialism has also tested pigs, such as Leicoma, the East German pig that survived the change of the system. The German Democratic Republic had created its own socialist pig breed with Leicoma.

Politically the pig of the breed, Leicoma is long dead, as is the German Democratic Republic (GDR), where the breed was created. But in the east of Germany, this pig breed still exists, thanks to Dutchman Wouter Uwland, who is their last breeder.

He produces about 2,500 Leicoma piglets every year. And of course, he doesn't do this for fun, but because he makes a lot of profit from the socialist pigs. "We send the pigs to the pig breeding plant located ten kilometers away, in the neighboring village. There they stay until they are ten to eleven months old, when they reach a weight of 180 kg, and are ready to be slaughtered." - says Wouter Uwland.

Resistant and stubborn

Leicoma is a word created by combining the first letters of the names, Leipzig, Cottbus, Magdeburg, three German districts of the former socialist East Germany, where pigs were cultivated, or rather, where pork was produced.

In the pig breeding and breeding plants in the GDR, there were about 170,000 pigs that were kept in small halls and fed automatically, in order to realize the predictions of the socialist plans. Pig meat was mainly exported to the west to increase the amount of foreign exchange.

Life in these conditions had side effects: the Leicoma pig is known to be stubborn, not easily adapting to the socialist collective. "They are very stubborn. They have their own heads, the conditions in the big plants were not easy for the animals, and each animal fought for itself to get by." - says Wouter Uwland.

Germany/ The socialist pig that survived the system change
Pig breeding and breeding plants

But before the start of the counter-revolution in the stable, East Germany came to an end and with it the Leicoma pig: meat breeding in the West was more effective. The reunited Germans left the pigs almost extinct.

Life in socialism has also seasoned the pigs

But fortunately for the Dutch pigs, Wouter Uwland, once came to this area and became familiar with the strength of the East German pigs. On his farm in the state of Saxony, Leicoma pigs are now raised in the fresh air and stay outside regardless of the weather. Life in East Germany seems to have strengthened their race.

"Leicoma is a difficult pig. But very convenient nowadays and he is very productive. They are heavier than others." - says Wouter Uwland. Leicoma pigs have good fat in the belly and ribs and a meat that looks different from the meat of other breeds.

"Leicoma itself is darker in color. Nowadays, the meat of most mass-raised pigs looks like chicken breast meat." - explains Wouter Uwland.

Even the butcher Marcus Benser is convinced of the advantages of pork created in socialism, regardless of ideology. "At the end of the day, East Germany tried to revive a typical country pig, because it realized what I have also realized, that traditional breeds cannot adapt to modern pig raising and breeding.

With the Leicoma pig, East German socialism has apparently won over the West German capitalist pigs, both in terms of meat and sausages./ DW


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