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kulak

Russian term for a peasant who could afford to hire labour and often acted as village usurer. The kulaks resisted the Soviet government's policy of collectivization, and in 1930 they were ‘liquidated as a class’, with up to 5 million being either killed or deported to Siberia.



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Until, that is, Stalin killed the Kulaks (rich peasants) and collectivized the land.
These "kulaks" thus became enemies of the state, and Stalin, in a chilling proclamation, called for the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class.
Khrushchev himself asked that 2,000 former kulaks who were now living in Moscow be liquidated in partial fulfillment of this total.
 
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