In any death, there is a victim; even though there may not be a killer in a literal sense. In the Ukraine, the peasant farmer class called the kulaks, and their killer is a man named Joseph Stalin. Stalin was irritated by the joyfulness of the Ukrainians at the looseness of their bondage to the Soviets that he said that their joy was deteriorating the bonds that the Soviets placed. Stalin started to take more grain out of their supply and collectivized the land. “Stalin also imposed the Soviet system of land management known as collectivization. This resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmlands and livestock, in a country where 80 percent of the people were traditional village farmers. Among those farmers, were a class of people called Kulaks by the Communists. They were formerly wealthy farmers that had owned 24 or more acres, or had employed farm workers. Stalin believed any future insurrection would be led by the Kulaks, thus he proclaimed a policy aimed at ‘liquidating the Kulaks as a class.’ (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)" “In late 1929, Stalin launched a ‘dekulakization’ program centered on Ukraine but encompassing the North Caucasus… (Askold Krushelnycky 112)” this is not all that happened, “Declared "enemies of the people," the Kulaks were left homeless and without a single possession as everything was taken from them, even their pots and pans. It was also forbidden by law for anyone to aid dispossessed Kulak families. Some researchers estimate that ten million persons were thrown out of their homes, put on railroad box cars and deported to "special settlements" in the wilderness of Siberia during this era, with up to a third of them perishing amid the frigid living conditions. Men and older boys, along with childless women and unmarried girls, also became slave-workers in Soviet-run mines and big industrial projects. (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)” later Stalin increased the food seizure, and made all food the property of the state. ”Anyone caught stealing State property, even an ear of corn or stubble of wheat, could be shot or imprisoned for not less than ten years. (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)” and thus, is what happened in Ukraine to the victims.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Post 3, Victims
In any death, there is a victim; even though there may not be a killer in a literal sense. In the Ukraine, the peasant farmer class called the kulaks, and their killer is a man named Joseph Stalin. Stalin was irritated by the joyfulness of the Ukrainians at the looseness of their bondage to the Soviets that he said that their joy was deteriorating the bonds that the Soviets placed. Stalin started to take more grain out of their supply and collectivized the land. “Stalin also imposed the Soviet system of land management known as collectivization. This resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmlands and livestock, in a country where 80 percent of the people were traditional village farmers. Among those farmers, were a class of people called Kulaks by the Communists. They were formerly wealthy farmers that had owned 24 or more acres, or had employed farm workers. Stalin believed any future insurrection would be led by the Kulaks, thus he proclaimed a policy aimed at ‘liquidating the Kulaks as a class.’ (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)" “In late 1929, Stalin launched a ‘dekulakization’ program centered on Ukraine but encompassing the North Caucasus… (Askold Krushelnycky 112)” this is not all that happened, “Declared "enemies of the people," the Kulaks were left homeless and without a single possession as everything was taken from them, even their pots and pans. It was also forbidden by law for anyone to aid dispossessed Kulak families. Some researchers estimate that ten million persons were thrown out of their homes, put on railroad box cars and deported to "special settlements" in the wilderness of Siberia during this era, with up to a third of them perishing amid the frigid living conditions. Men and older boys, along with childless women and unmarried girls, also became slave-workers in Soviet-run mines and big industrial projects. (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)” later Stalin increased the food seizure, and made all food the property of the state. ”Anyone caught stealing State property, even an ear of corn or stubble of wheat, could be shot or imprisoned for not less than ten years. (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)” and thus, is what happened in Ukraine to the victims.
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