It was a power struggle. The kulaks presumed they were indispensable to Russia.which they might have been..But Stalin proved they were NOT indispensable to the Soviets.
The middle class are always the most difficult for the state to “control”; they have the comprehension to call out the state on its BS as well as having the financial resources to do so.
The state is all about power
Good article that recites the reason we should oppose the left with every fiber of our being.
Very few Americans truly understand why or how the left is very dangerous. It is a mob that demands complete obedience and just like Stalin, they are capable of justifying any atrocity in the name of the state and “collective”.
The left punishes original thought and individualism. The left will punish obedience to God over obedience to the state.
Bernie wouldn’t do anything like that, would he?
The Kulaks were just ignorant farmers, right Mayor Bloomberg?
I’d like to see Google and Facebook employees given revolvers and be sent to move rural southerners off their land...
A prosperous middle class is incompatible with communism. Some like obama try to eradicate the middle class before introducing communism. Some like Stalin do it afterwards.
Reading this article makes clear that the cautionary warning that “they” (liberals, progressives, communists, the left — whatever you want to call them) would likely line us up against a wall and mow us down. Don’t think they’re capable of atrocities? Think abortion on demand; without regard to medical necessity but also to avoid inconvenience. The writer cites examples of today’s leading leftists.
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Thanks for posting. It’s how D.C. Divide & Control/Kill totalitarians roll. Kulaks, infidels, jews, bitter clingers, deplorables. Never address grievances against the individual (with evidence) to take over...gain POWER.
Beware the Ides of March. Satanists love symbolism.
The first instance of communism in the modern world was the Paris Commune after France’s collapse in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. As soon as the communards took over the mass murder began. This was a taste of things to come in the 20th century.
Apologists for communism claim that Stalin was an aberration, just like Mao and Pol Pot were aberrations. We have a pronounced pattern here that the apologists refuse to acknowledge.
After the fall of the Soviet Union a film was made in Russia in 1991, ‘The Chekist’, that made the point in a horrific way that the mass murder in Russia did not start with Stalin but as soon as the Bolsheviks gained power. As the author contends in the article, it wasn’t Stalin but communism itself.
THX for posting this.
My Grandfather was a Kulak. Went thorough the revolution as a teenager and talked about it quite a bit.
He, his brother and his parents had a small farm outside of Kiev.
The Bolsheviks (whose, according to my Gramps, slogan was “For the People” (Sound familiar??)) came on the property and basically took all their food and livestock.
I don’t know how his parents got the boys to America but I do know one of my Gramps’ first job was being an American soldier in WW1.
Go on You Tube land watch “The Red Menace.” It is an Anti-commie film made in 1948 and see if you don’t see the same things that are occurring today with the left. I found it truly fascinating some of the dialogue and how they demand total obedience. McCarthy was Right!
FR is the epicenter of the movement to preserve the kulaks in the U.S...