Post 1, Background

        So what I can sum up from what I read about "Stalin's Forced Famine in the Ukraine" from several different sources, I can assume that kulak farmers were massacred because they disagreed with Stalin's policy of collectivization, though I will speak of this in later posts. This is not the only thing that has happened in history. When you look at all the people in that history, and you put together all of the people that have the same types of governmental goals and policies, you will find the following examples; Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, and many more. You will find that the persons listed all set a common enemy for the public to support them in their political roles. Hitler’s enemy was the Jews, Hussein accused the people of Kuwait, Osama had amends to make with the Hindu, and Obama’s enemy is guns and terrorism. Stalin has made certain peasants in the Ukraine the enemy.
        In the Ukraine, the people had just freed themselves from the rule of the Czar, and declared a people's republic. Vladimir Lenin then tried to recapture everything that had belonged to the czar. Ukrainian troops fought against Lenin's red army and Russia's white army. The soviets won the war in 1921, and divided Ukraine into 4 parts. The soviets immediately began to ship out grain from Ukraine, and coincidentally, there was a drought that year coincidentally. Lenin loosened his grip on the Ukraine to decrease the resentment against himself. What he did to loosen his grip on the people of Ukraine was the following: he lessened the amount of grain taken from farms and villages and he encouraged a free-market exchange of goods. Lenin died just a few years after this in 1924 and the terrible monstrosity of Josef Stalin took over Ukraine and the Soviets (Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33).