First step is villainize the "Kulaks".
From history:
"The Bolsheviks viewed the kulaks as unconditional enemies, so for several generations of Soviet people the term kulak acquired a negative meaning.
But in reality, the kulaks were entrepreneurs engaged in agriculture. These were mostly the people using advanced production methods and therefore making greater profits than others.
However, it is dangerous to be successful, always and everywhere, and at that time in the USSR it was mortally dangerous to be successful.
The kulaks by their example showed an alternative to what the Soviet state declared. They showed that you can be successful outside the collective farm, that you can work for yourself. Such people have always been mortal enemies of the Soviet regime - at all times of its existence.
It was very easy for the Soviet state to set poorer peasants against the kulaks. The Bolsheviks, as always, massively used lies to induce arouse envy, fear and hatred towards the kulaks from the poorer peasants. This tactic worked.
The main guilt of the kulaks was that they were representatives of private enterprise, that they were more productive than the state system and that they were relatively independent of the state.
However, in the USSR, it was forbidden to be independent. Everyone had to be poor and rely on the state in everything."
From history:
"The Bolsheviks viewed the kulaks as unconditional enemies, so for several generations of Soviet people the term kulak acquired a negative meaning.
But in reality, the kulaks were entrepreneurs engaged in agriculture. These were mostly the people using advanced production methods and therefore making greater profits than others.
However, it is dangerous to be successful, always and everywhere, and at that time in the USSR it was mortally dangerous to be successful.
The kulaks by their example showed an alternative to what the Soviet state declared. They showed that you can be successful outside the collective farm, that you can work for yourself. Such people have always been mortal enemies of the Soviet regime - at all times of its existence.
It was very easy for the Soviet state to set poorer peasants against the kulaks. The Bolsheviks, as always, massively used lies to induce arouse envy, fear and hatred towards the kulaks from the poorer peasants. This tactic worked.
The main guilt of the kulaks was that they were representatives of private enterprise, that they were more productive than the state system and that they were relatively independent of the state.
However, in the USSR, it was forbidden to be independent. Everyone had to be poor and rely on the state in everything."
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