Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator
Real Dictators
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Stalin's New Collective State-Run Farms
Simon Seibach Montefure: Stalin's policy of collective state-run farms was devastating. He says it reduced the peasant population by siphoning off the very best, condemned many to starvation because those that you sent to Siberia had nothing to eat. The ones that were left were so frightened, they slaughtered all their animalsvery often and ate them as protest. So by 1933 you had cannibalism, all over southern Russia,. It was the most appalling man-made famine in history, and it was done deliberately.
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