Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Gulag Uprising of 1954" video.
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There were multiple famines in Soviet times, not just the famous Ukrainian one. The first major attack on Kulaks was under Lenin, after that it was largely a slogan, like class enemy, as those called it already lived on collectised land.
Under Lenin food detachments were sent out to rob everything from the peasants, they also r*ped and murdered on mass. Contry to later the peasants resisted on mass, 10 tens of thousands of detachment troops would be killed and the red army would suppress revolts and then use foreign troops (Chinese, Latvian and Jewish) to massacre the civilians in reprisal.
By the time of Stalin terror was a successful tactic to force compliance. The resistance was much less.
Tankies will claim that the victims were all rich capitalists, they weren't, they were just freeholding peasants who didn't want to starve or were angry at their daughters being r*ped. The Soviets wiped out the old aristocratic, which didn't make the peasants more prosperous but did remove local non-party agents of organisation.
In a lot of ways Russia has never recovered, before the revolution vast lands were being filled by very high birth rates, the Soviets destroyed the birth rate and forced people into the cities, the industrialisation was slower than under the Tsar, less efficient and all the potential of the country was sucked out. Also so criminals could live a high life on the debasement of a great nation and people.
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