| Kulaks and enemies of the people became non-people who could be liquidated without remorse. |
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| I remember the despair of educated land owners who had become dispossessed kulaks. |
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| Fearing they would be labeled kulaks, people also fled their homes and villages. |
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| The Soviets dealt with their kulaks before establishing hegemony over Eastern Europe. |
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| Many in the party were now convinced that kulaks were holding the country to ransom. |
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| The killing of the kulaks was the practical application of Marxist epistemology. |
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| In the depth of winter a big group of kulaks with their families were being taken on carts 300 kilometres into the backwoods of the region. |
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| Not quite kulaks for Stalin, maybe, but not exactly all that different either. |
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| These were only the initial stages of Stalin's war against the kulaks, however. |
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| As he presents the case, the kulaks simply destroyed all the grain and hence starved themselves. |
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| Then they targeted civilians, whether clerks or kulaks, and semi-civilians like constables. |
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| During the Soviets' 1930s collectivisation campaign, many Cossacks were killed or died of starvation, as did the kulaks. |
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| Stalin murdered seven million kulaks in a bid to wipe out the rich peasantry of rural Russia and collectivise agriculture in a brutal Leninist blueprint. |
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