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Word: peasantryâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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Stalin: Of course, there is a certain not very large section of the population which really fears the Soviet power and fights against it. I have in mind the remnants of the dying classes now being liquidated [wiped out] and above all a negligible part of the peasantry???the kulaks. . . . But if you take the laboring population of the Soviet Union, the workers and the toiling peasants, who represent not less than 90% of the people, they are on the side of the Soviet power and the overwhelming majority of them actively support it. And they support the Soviet power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Areopagus | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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