... be possible to finance industry, which in turn would result in an increase in living standards. Stalin's policy of collectivism entailed the confiscation of the bulk of the land and farm machinery of the peasants into the control of the state. By March 1930, under the surveillance of an army of supervisors fifteen million households had been collectivised. Fixed quotas were ... set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. The years 1932-1933 saw a severe famine, which first appeared in the Ukraine and then spread to surrounding areas ....

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... going back into the towns. They refused to sell their produce at state-fixed prices, they sabotaged the trade "threatening the very existence of Soviet power" with their "anti-collective-farm propaganda" according to Y. Kukushkin. There was also an important loss of human lives as 13 million were either killed, deported into labour camps or new factories. Around 3 million people died ... imprisoned in labour camps all the people who were " in Stalin's way" as claims J. Ninstal. As some historians argue, maybe Stalin's motive was pure necessity and that there was a real plot to overthrow...

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