Word: kulak
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...Kadar regime is "Order, Peace and Collaboration," but its strategy has been to divide the country by cracking down hard on industrial workers and intellectuals and building up the peasantry, who gave the Russians relatively the least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they...
...Parasitical capitalism is one thing, productive capitalism another. A kulak, the village leech, is miles apart from a village capitalist of the farmer type. Our program should include support for those capitalists who multiply the national income, who derive profits from a constant increase in productivity...
...Communists, Social Democrats and Smallholders.. Free election one year later gave democratic elements smashing victory (Smallholders, 2,688,161 votes; Social Democrats, 821,566; Communists, 800,257), but Soviet influence and soldiers on the ground put key ministries into Communist hands. As Minister of Agriculture (nicknamed "the Kulak" because of his sleek, well-fed look), Nagy undertook land seizures and enforced collectivization. As Minister for Internal Affairs (police), he acted as cover for the Soviet terror which led in 1947 to the arrest of Smallholders Secretary Bela Kovacs, and forced the resignation of Premier Ferenc Nagy...
Killed him a kulak when he was only four...
...punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry subjects. In Ruppin they put up posters showing a local man and his wife beside a well-stacked table. "The needy collect Ami food parcels," the signs read. "An example-Reinhard Dehnicke is a kulak with 44 hectares of land. He owns one tractor, three horses, 14 cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough. "Has the pastor collected parcels because he is needy?" the signs asked...