Word: kulak
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Promptly all Moscow seethed over this CHIEF DANGER and outsiders were mildly amazed-for did not Josef Stalin demand two years ago "the liquidation of the kulak?" Did not rivers of blood flow? And was not the kulak liquidated...
Paramount fact: more than two thirds of the whole sown area of the Soviet Union is not only not in the hands of kulak households, but it is not even in the hands of poor peasant households. This vast and vital two thirds now consists of: 1) State farms or 2) collective farms worked cooperatively by groups of peasants under State supervision...
...Soviet statecraft this same ability of the Slav to act "without limit" has resulted in such daring extremes of policy as the attempt to wipe out the whole kulak or "rich peasant" class, complete the Five Year Plan in four years, and suppress all political parties except one, the Communist Party...
...Moscow a similar order was issued not long ago by Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov. He was curious to know what the families of 715,000 Red Army men think of Dictator Josef Stalin's program of "liquidating" (exterminating) the kulak or "rich peasant" class and herding poor peasants into Communist "collective farms" (TIME...
...Communist with a greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months or two years later the Dictator may change his mind. As in the case of the anti-Religion campaign, he may modify or relax his whole program, reserving if not the Right then...