HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fasces, Kulak, Il Popolo D'Italia
22 Oct 2017
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Industries developed rapidly, but did not offer what the people wanted. (only offered needs, not comforts. eg: us had tvs) Workers idolized stalin because he united and modernized in a difficult time. Communism looked good during the great depression, which was full of poverty, hunger, unemployment, etc: kulaks. Stalin ruled private farming ineffective, and formed kalkhoz(y) (huge collective farms). Richer peasants (kulaks) did not like this. Stalin declared war on this class and began dekulakization: dekulakization. Kulaks were deported to forced labor camps called gulags. Law of a blade of grass kulaks were forced to pick food while being starved, and were shot to death if they tried to eat anything. (so either way they died and quick death might be better) Stalin put the public on their side with propaganda that claimed the kulaks were eating all the food and therefore being killed: collective farms. Peasants did not want collective farming, and this resulted in a great famine.
