The Origins of the OGPU

While the collectivization and decool-ec-ization were ongoing, there would be growing resistance throughout the countryside. Peasants generally did not attack thousands or others advocating or forcing collectivization but instead chose more creative ways to protest. The idea that the peasants were trying to attempt or attempting to launch some kind of counter-revolutionary campaign was born out of a kind of desperation. Even from the period between 1931 and 1932, year over year grain production and collection would drop 20%.