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the fields of villagers, who made up 80% of the total Russian population.
As a part of the policy of nationalization, party officials collected all the
villagers' crops, causing famine to millions of women, children and
elderly people. In Kazakhstan alone, 20% of the population died of
hunger. In the Caucasus, the death toll rose to more than one million.
Thousands of people who attempted to resist these policies were
interned in labor camps in Siberia. In these camps, where forced labor was
extremely arduous, the majority of captives did not escape death.

Thousands of people were executed by Stalin's dreaded secret police, the
NKVD. Forced emigration became part of the Stalinist policy; millions of
people were relocated, leaving their homelands for remote parts of Russia.
Stalin was responsible for at least twenty million deaths throughout
Russia. From what historians relate, Stalin derived pleasure from such
brutality and, in his Kremlin office, very much enjoyed examining the
reports of the death tolls coming in from the labor camps.
Terror in Stalin's time was not only directed at those who voiced
objections to the system or intellectuals. Under the attacks of communist
militants, everyone was under threat. Indiscriminately, masses were
interned in the "Gulag", a network of forced labor camps, where many

Stalin was responsible for at least twenty million deaths throughout Russia. From what
historians relate, he derived pleasure from such brutality and, in his Kremlin office, very much
enjoyed examining the reports of the death tolls coming in from the labor camps. Terror in
Stalin's time was not only directed at those who voiced objections to the system or at
intellectuals. Under the attacks of communist militants, everyone was under threat.