The Kulaks were capitalists who got rich in the period after the ending of Serfdom. The dispute with Stalin was that the State instructed the Kulaks to sell their grain at the prices set by the State. They refused and ended up slaughtering their livestock, eating/destroying their crops, including their seed grain. They were angry because they wanted more money, and many ended up starving as a result. An enormous tragedy, but most of the blame lay with the Kulaks who literally destroyed the food supply.
Blaming the victims...who starved themselves, eh.
Have any evidence for your claims?
Oh, glorious socialism....
en.wikipedia.org
Excerpted....
On 30 January 1930, the
Politburo approved the dissolving of the kulaks as a class. Three categories of kulaks were distinguished: kulaks who were supposed to be sent to the
Gulags, kulaks who were supposed to be relocated to distant provinces, such as the north
Urals and
Kazakhstan, kulaks who were supposed to be sent to other areas within their home provinces.
[22] The peasantry were required to relinquish their farm animals to government authorities. Many chose to slaughter their livestock rather than give them up to collective farms. In the first two months of 1930, peasants killed millions of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and goats, with the meat and hides being consumed and bartered.
Notice how animals weren't slaughtered to be wasted.
This was better than losing them by confiscation.
They saw how their fellows were being treated, eg,
imprisoned, relocated.
Excerpted....
Stalin ordered severe measures to end kulak resistance. In 1930, he declared: "In order to oust the 'kulaks' as a class, the resistance of this class must be smashed in open battle and it must be deprived of the productive sources of its existence and development. ... That is a turn towards the policy of eliminating the kulaks as a class."
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Sounds like a pogrom, eh.
Such things are common under socialism.
Excerpted...
From 1929–1933, the grain quotas were artificially heightened. Peasants attempted to hide the grain and bury it. According to historian
Robert Conquest, every brigade was equipped with a long iron bar which it would use to probe the ground for grain caches
[26] and peasants who did not show signs of starvation were especially suspected of hiding food.
[27] Conquest states: "When the snow melted true starvation began. People had swollen faces and legs and stomachs. They could not contain their urine... And now they ate anything at all. They caught mice, rats, sparrows, ants, earthworms. They ground up bones into flour, and did the same with leather and shoe soles ... ."
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Your post sounds like they deserved this fate.
So it is with socialist regimes, ie, submit to the
hive's every wish or be murdered.
