A local kulak who actively denounces collectivization and organizes resistance against it. His opposition sets the stage for the film's central ideological and physical conflicts.
Both occupy the anti-collectivization side of the village's ideological tension, although the plot does not show a direct confrontation between them.
Opanas is initially skeptical about collectivization, while Arkhyp Bilokin openly denounces collectivization and declares resistance to it.
They represent opposing forces in the collectivization conflict.
Arkhyp Bilokin denounces collectivization and resists it, while Vasyl brings the community's first tractor and helps the peasants plow the land.
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