Since the 20s of the XX century, collectivization of agriculture has been carried out. Stalin demanded to speed up the process, to evict and even shoot part of the kulaks who fiercely resisted collectivization.
Collectivization as a war of the state
Forcible enrollment of peasants in collective farms, in which property belonging to the family was taken, turned into peasant riots. To intimidate people, some families simply dispossessed, using their property as a material base for collective farms. Families were evicted from their inhabited places, sending them to the European north of the country, as well as to the sparsely populated areas of Siberia, someone was sent to prison. It was a war officially declared by the state against peasants.
This war culminated in the early 1930s, when millions of people were sent on the road in inappropriate conditions, without food and clothing. When dispossessed, they first of all took away shoes and warm clothes. Many did not reach their destinations; they died along the way. The young Soviet Republic demanded cheap labor in order to carry out the projects of the Party and the government. And they found her, sending people in large numbers to exile and camps of the OGPU, for example, with their help, the famous White Sea-Baltic Canal was built. If it weren’t for the prisoners, a lot of equipment and money would have been required, and the prisoners with the kyle and the wheelbarrow replaced it.
