Joseph Stalin's Forced Famine
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Joseph Stalin's Forced Famine
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Joseph Stalin is known to be “one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history” (bbc.co.uk). Stalin
became general secretary of the Communist Party, which had given him the control that he had been looking for
(bbc.co.uk). Soon after, he was granted dictatorship of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin had died
(historyplace.com). Many people did not like the way that Stalin was ruling. People wanted their own
independence from Stalin and he did not take that very well. In 1929, Stalin had believed that many Ukrainian
scholars, scientists, religious leaders, etc. were planning a riot against him. Without even being listened to during a
trial, they were killed or deported immediately to prison camps (blogspot.com).
The beginning of the genocide started with classification of the civilization. Stalin classified people into different
groups because of collective farming. Stalin wanted to combine the farming so that it would be like one big farm.
The farmers ended up losing their farms and all of their possessions that were there also. Stalin believed that an
uprising could happen in the future if he hadn’t gotten rid of the Kulaks. He thought he had to take more control
towards them so he took away all of their things and soon enough, they were homeless. Since the Kulaks were in
disagreement with Stalin, he began to symbolize them into their own group.
Representation of the Kulaks began because Stalin knew he had to separate the Kulaks from everyone else
because they had disobeyed his orders that were given to them. He gave them another name to separate the
Kulaks from everybody else. He decided to give them the name “enemies of the people” (blogspot.com). This way
people would know who was considered traitors to Stal...