It was a whole epoch. The country was trying to come back to normal life after the war. Old and young people were spending their lives at the collective farms and it was as hard as hell. Women gave birth to children not in hospitals but right on the fields and those children often died from various deseases as well as adults. Many people couldn’t survive that period.
It says “The entire crop is for the front”.
It’s harvesting of spring wheat.
The women are busy with cabbage weeding.
It says “Khatorg” – Kharkiv trading.
“We are farmers who liquidate kulaks (wealthy peasants) as a class on the basis of complete collectivization”.
“Thank you, I. Stalin! Let’s collect a rich harvest!”
But even then they used to smile no matter what.
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This is how you ruin a country that was once the largest exporter of cash crops…thank god this is over!
Its difficult to find another case, when state commited so horrendous crime on their own citizens. Those, who defend Stalin and Lenin should be forced to eat Stalin’s concrete statutes.
what a misery, what abou body count of collectiviziation? Among stupid communist ideas, collectivization seems to be the biggest crime and pure evil, crime against Russia which took it back to the age of slavery and starvation.
Absolutely. You know like the kibbutim in Israel.
“Red Bread” by Maurice Hindus (a great book).
All freedom, individuality, expression, privacy stamped out. People reduced to the level of livestock. All in the interest of control and efficiency. This is the ultimate goal of every state, whether Communist or capitalist.
Do not forget that several hundred billion people were killed by communism.
“several hundred billion people were killed”
Sorry, you mean million, right? We only do have 7 billion people on earth as of 2012.
Now I understand why the republic lost the cold war, the left people with real support to survive, a lot of people living in the very basic, is not bad but they need more than courage to win, I really admire russian people!!!
Amazing a whole population can fall for the “we liquidate wealthy pesants…” BS.
After all is said and done, America is close behind you, heading full steam into this crap. The radical liberals in America have so much hatred for those that are rich (and not liberals, rich liberals are fine).
They LOVE this sort of system. They think they can make it work, you Russians, just screwed up, but the American liberals, why, they can make it work.
I hope I’m dead and gone when that time comes.
Yet you see a difference between universal healthcare and collectivization, do You?
I do.. government’s seem to know more about farming than they do medicine!
Medicare is allright, running the whole economy is madness.
Nothing like slave labors.
1917 = jews job
A prime example of why collectivization never works. How many millions of people died because of a failed ideology?
Lots of experts on Soviet history here. But I’ll depend on objective truth instead.
Yes, lots of us had family members lost during that time or were deprived of their properties to fill the stomachs of fat communist nomenklatura a$$h0le$! You can keep your communist propaganda for yourself!
So only anti-communist propaganda is allowed?
Truth is allowed and that communism was a nightmare is an established fact, sorry that you missed the past 90 years or so.
Morning skies’ rippled jack…
Most important, the first step
Hear: waving over landscape
Winds of furious attacks
Our battle begins yet again
And the heart alarms so strongly
And Lenin is young once again
And blooming October to be
A great movie; just forget the cult of personality- that was invented by Stalin.
USSR forever
long live comrade stalin！
Collectivization…perhaps less would have died if they simply killed some of them and used them to feed the others, rather then forcing them to collectivize. What a clusterf_ck.
You’re a few days late…(must’ve had a big weekend?)
Stalin and Russian communists killed more than four millions of Ukrainian in the Ukrainian Holodomor (famine-genocide) of 1932-1933.