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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator, who has been from 1930 onward a merciless exterminator of Russia's more prosperous peasants or kulaks, is now ready, announced Comrade Yakovlev, to readmit "repentant kulaks" to cultivation of Russia's farm lands. Since Stalin has exiled some 1,000,000 kulaks to Siberia, where many have died, Russia can now count on the return of the remainder in the guise of "repentant kulaks" to her most fertile lands. Originally these folk were the Soviet Union's most able soil tillers. "These former class enemies," cried Comrade Yakovlev last week, "will now receive lenient treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Collective Congress | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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