As a result of the Soviet draconian measures foisted upon the Ukrainian Kulaks (arrests, house-searches, fines, confiscation of property. and even shooting) the Kulaks began to resist. There were instances of armed insurrections, assassinations of Party officials, stonings, and beatings but by far the most prevalent means of resistance to the Communist was the Kulaks scorched earth policy that found them slaughtering their own livestock so that it could not be commandeered by the Soviets. The Peasants were seeking to avoid collectivization even if it mean self impoverishment.
In February and March of 1930 alone 14 million head of cattle were destroyed, a ful 1/3 of all pigs, and 25% of all sheep and goats. By 1934 40% percent of all Cattle were gone and 60% of all sheep and goats. (Western estimates were far higher.)
As a consequence of this scorched earth policy Moscow decided that the Kulaks could not be collectivized and so must be liquidated as a class and so the Soviets did to the Kulaks what the Kulaks had been doing to their livestock.
The Communist Reprisals against the Kulaks is what we now call “The Holodomor.”
Information from
S. J. Taylor’s “Stalin’s Apologist” — pg. 162-163
During the Romanian Revolution 1989, the Communist govt severely rationed food supplies & cut energy consumption. People were cramped into tiny apartments & allowed only 2-4hrs of heat in 45deg winter temp. Many children & older people died. State nurseries were set up & children sold to adoption agencies in Western Europe. The secret police terrorized any opposition whilst the dictator lived like royalty. He hated Christ, so destroyed churches & family, bulldozing villages & forcing them into “agro-industrial” community centers, permitting only hymns worshiping the state. Even children were gunned down after they knelt down, crying in unison, “God is alive!” and just after orthodox priests had closed the door on them. Over 100 children & young people gave their lives that day for God & the freedom of their country. People took to the streets shouting, “Down with Communism”.
The soldiers refused to obey the dictator, & the dictator & his wife were shot by a firing squad.
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