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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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Peasants in
Ukraine in 1929
listening to collec-
tivization propa-
ganda.
Collectivization
was presented as
a way to increase
agricultural yield,
but its implemen-
tation caused a
terrible famine.

d deported with their wives, children and elderly family members.
Although not all kulaks were exterminated directly, sentences of forced
labor in wilderness areas of Siberia or the far north left them with scant
chance of survival. Several tens of thousands perished there; the exact
number of victims remains unknown. As for the great famine in Ukraine in
1932-33, which resulted from the rural population's resistance to forced
collectivization, 6 million died in a period of several months. 42
The savagery inflicted on the kulaks included the most horrendous
tortures. In a letter to Stalin in April 1933, the writer Mikhail Sholokhov
wrote:
In the Napolovski kolkhoz [a collective farm in the Soviet Union] a certain
Plotkin, plenipotentiary for the district committee, forced the collective
workers to stretch out on stoves heated till they were white hot; then he
cooled them off by leaving them naked in a hangar. 43
Stalin's regime, like Lenin's before it, created imaginary enemies
they called "kulaks." They targeted anyone they wanted to eliminate by
stamping them with this name. It was easy for the Communists to cate-
gorize those they didn't like as "kulaks" and to send orders to every city,