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 * Stalin Forced Famine



Communist Leader Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union ordered innocent Ukrainians, in the 1930s, to give up their land to the state. Then the Government would control the farms and the farmers could still work there, but they would be forced to simply work for the sates. Among the farmers that were targeted was a more specific group known as the Kulaks. The Kulaks were picked out specifically because they were the wealthy farmers. Someone was considered a Kulak if they had more than 24 acres of land or had employees. Stalin ordered a new policy in order to liquidate the Kulaks as a class. Not all Ukrainians gave in so easily, giving up their hard earned property rights, and resisted Stalin's forced famine. In order for Stalin to weaken his people's resistance, he order the Ukrainian grain from the farms to be deported from the area. He began to starve millions of people. This would be written in text books as Stalin's forced famine. Stalin was feirce leader and raided his own people. Stalin sent his corrupt police force, who acted like a gang of the thugs, to strip the Ukrainians to take everything they could from the Ukrainians. They would take the clothes off their backs, literally, and killed thousands of people. Stalin only planned to take the land of six million people, but the police stole ten million. While people starved to death food was being waisted, and locked away behind guard armed facilities. Who and what was the death rate in this horrible famine? It was estimated that over five million Ukrainians died from the forced famine between the years 1932 and 1933. In other parts of the Soviet Union 20 million others died because no food left the Ukrainian region.

A Soviet author stated, "Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings."

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