Quotes About Kulak

In 1925 Stalin had said that there was latent "beat the kulak" sentiment in the party.

In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization when Stalin launched a war against all peasants.

You have about as much chance as a starving Ukrainian kulak now that Moscow's clapped on the interdict.

In the end, the number of people killed in the kulak operation was about the same as the number sent to the Gulag (378,326 and 389,070, respectively).