Advertisement "We must smash the kulaks, liquidate them as a class," Stalin said in one directive. The first part of the collectivization campaign went as planned. Masses of Kulaks were deported ...

Stalin’s collectivization of the countryside saw the confiscation of private property and farms, as well as all food. This policy was enforced by state police and local activists and as a ...

Kulaks (Russian peasants) resisted Stalin’s forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed. It’s hard to see the evil dictator as a family man, but here Stalin is ...

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Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm ... Rumania’s Pauker and other Jewish Communist leaders before Stalin’s death. Talking Big. When Malenkov took over, Rakosi was ordered to ...