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He did certainly starve many on purpose as can be seen by the unwillingness to allow "Kulaks" and Ukrainians from leaving or finding other sources of food, and by the forceful repatriation and gulags.
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"Kulaks" were bing killed, anyone who had earned anything in private farming was forced to hide, pretend not to have earned anything, their food was all taken, they were starved, they were banned from joining collective farms while at the same time prevented from privately farming - resulting in deaths for most of them, the rest were all sent to the gulag where many of them died.
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"After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War (1917-1921) all of these farms (whose owners were called Kulaks) and enterprises were expropriated.
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When the Kulaks resisted giving up their land and their property to be redistributed to "the people", Stalin starved and then slaughtered them by the millions.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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That effort to bring hope and change to the Kulaks succeeded in what President Obama described as his goal of “spreading the wealth around,” though not, perhaps, in precisely a way that the local depopulation appreciated.
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Unemployment insurance will be extended to provide relief from those greedy Kulaks, er I mean employers.
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Prediction 3: no matter what they do, the Republicans will equate it with Stalin collectivizing the farms and slaughtering the Kulaks.
Klobuchar: Minn. Senate Race Will Be Over By July 4 -- Or "I'll Just Be Mad" 2010
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Hitler was determined to eliminate the Jews, just as the Bolsheviks were determined to eliminate the Kulaks.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Hitler was determined to eliminate the Jews, just as the Bolsheviks were determined to eliminate the Kulaks.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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There is a direct line from Marx and Engels to Hitler and the Holocaust; to Lenin and Stalin and the liquidation of the Kulaks and the extermination of the Ukrainians; to Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Auschwitz, and to Kolima, Vorkuta and Karaganda.
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