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The Russian Civil War Was Not the Type to Compromise
Russian Civil War killed another 10 million people, vast majority of them civilians. Lenin ordered the brutal expropriation of the Ukrainian peasantry after it was won. Stalin stepped up the intensity in the early 30s, purposely starving to death several million more Ukrainians. The Soviet government forced Ukrainian peasants to work their fields without allowing them to keep any grain.