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Text Chapter 232: Forcing the Soviet Union

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    Cuikov's heart was pricked again by Qin Wei's words.  He was suddenly afraid of talking to this person.  "Ukrainian Famine"!  That was a taboo topic in the Soviet Union, especially among senior officials like them, and it was a taboo among taboos.  In order to prevent people from knowing about the Great Famine, the Soviet government implemented a strict information blockade, but how did the guy in front of him know?  Everyone knows that the Great Famine in Ukraine was actually a disaster caused by Stalin¡¯s agricultural collectivization movement. The causes of the famine were natural factors, but more importantly, human factors.  Among the top leaders of the Soviet Union, there is more or less speculation that the famine may have been a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation.  Chuikov knew that Stanislav Vikentievich Kosiol, one of the main persons responsible for the Great Famine in Ukraine and the then First Secretary of Ukraine, issued an instruction at a local cadre meeting in the summer of 1930, saying that Ukrainian farmers  They were unwilling to cooperate with the Soviet regime and tried to strangle the Soviet regime. However, the enemies of the Soviet Communist regime made a wrong calculation. The mission of the cadres was to collect hidden grains in the Ukrainian countryside and let the farmers taste the taste of hunger.  This is even more terrifying than the "surplus grain collection system" adopted when the Soviet Union was first established.  You must know that the "surplus grain collection system" was introduced because the newly born Soviet Union faced a large number of internal and external enemies and was short of food on the front line.  In order to defeat the enemy, Lenin and others used this trick.  Relying on the surplus grain collection system, the Soviet regime had enough food and quickly suppressed the enemy.  But similarly, due to the lack of effective management during the implementation process, some areas adopted simple and crude methods, which aroused resistance from farmers in many areas So.  In 1921, Lenin and others proposed the New Economic Policy, and the surplus grain collection system was eventually replaced by the grain tax.  But when the Great Famine occurred in Ukraine, Ukraine resumed the "surplus grain collection system" Chuikov knew that from 1932 to 1933, when the Great Famine reached its peak, cannibalism even occurred in the Ukrainian countryside, and  The practice of digging up and eating the bodies of buried cats, dogs, domestic animals, and humans during the winter.  Of course, these things were not recognized by the Soviet government.  Their external caliber is the same as what was reported by New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, who once won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the brilliant results of the Soviet Five-Year Plan: There was no famine in Ukraine, and there was no famine in Ukraine.  may happen.  Because Ukraine is the most famous granary in Europe.  But this matter cannot be hidden from people of Chuikov¡¯s level.  Because of the forced collectivization of agriculture, a large number of members of the Soviet Communist Party were sent to the countryside to mobilize farmers to join collective farms.  As a result, these people encountered both passive and active resistance in Ukraine.  This ultimately led to the collective arrest and deportation of the Ukrainian ¡°kulak¡± class by the Soviet Union.  A large number of Ukrainian farmers who were good at farming and experienced in agriculture were classified as "kulaks" and their families were exiled to Siberia and Central Asia, resulting in a decline in Ukrainian agricultural production technology and productivity.  Farmers who were exempted from deportation were unwilling to farm for fear of being classified as rich peasants. The direct result was that Ukraine's grain output plummeted in 1932.  It was expected that 90.7 million tons of grain could be harvested in the Soviet Union that year, but only 55 to 60 million tons were actually harvested.  The amount of grain acquired by the Soviet government also dropped from the expected 26.5 million tons to 18.5 million tons.  To solve the problem of food shortage.  On August 7, 1932, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issued a new decree making "theft of collective farm property" punishable by death.  This law essentially prohibited farmers from taking any agricultural products as their own.  By January 1933, 790,000 farmers had been arrested on this crime.  4,880 of them were sentenced to death.  After prohibiting farmers from possessing harvested grain, on December 6, 1932, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued another order to remove all means of production in Ukraine.  Including agricultural tools, livestock, seeds and other items, all are taken into public ownership.  It is prohibited to transport any grains and manufactured products into rural Ukraine, and off-site buying and selling of goods and agricultural products is prohibited throughout Ukraine.  In addition, grain search teams were dispatched to rural areas of Ukraine to confiscate farmers' surplus grain, rations and seed grains.  In addition, starting from 1933, Soviet officials adopted a new method of grain statistics. Instead of actually receiving the figures in the barn, they used "biological yield" to extremely exaggerate the yield of farmland. The purpose of doing so was to use this  Plant "biological yield" as a ration to force collective farms to pay more grain.  But apart from making the Soviet agricultural output in the 1930s and 1940s statistically beyond the imagination of any foreign experts, this did not do any good to actual agricultural production.  Because of the implementation of several punitive measures against Ukraine, a few months later, in the spring of 1933, an extremely serious famine began to appear throughout Ukraine.  Although the Soviet Communist Party and the Ukrainian Politburo issued some remedial orders, including transporting 320,000 tons of grain to famine areas, the movement of transporting grain out of Ukraine also did not stop.  When?Drought in the spring in much of western Russia and Ukraine increased the extent of the famine.  However, the Soviet government prohibited the movement of disaster victims outwards. Transportation between Ukraine and the Don River Basin with the outside world was interrupted, and travel to these areas was banned.  Anyone trying to leave Ukraine without permission was arrested as a "class enemy."   "But these things should be tightly sealed. Even within the Soviet Union, people like me don't know the specific situation, and the outside world is even less likely to know. How did the Chinese know?" I thought.  What he knew was either through hearsay, or through other channels, or through some information he had summarized. Cuikov looked at Qin Wei with murderous intent in his eyes - this Chinese was too dangerous and should be eliminated!  But Qin Wei seemed to have no feeling about this. He took out a newspaper from somewhere and spread it on the table in front of him, and then began to mutter something: "After the 'October Revolution', the Bolshevik Party immediately implemented economic and military  ', monopoly and expropriation of grain are implemented. In fact, this kind of 'military' is not necessarily related to 'military'. Lenin declared before the 'October Revolution': 'Grain monopoly, bread rationing and universalization.  The compulsory labor system is the most powerful means of calculation and supervision in the hands of the proletarian state. 'So, 'military', in Lenin's view, is a basic national policy and not just a temporary expediency in wartime.  Plan" "In order to achieve a complete monopoly on food, the state sent a large number of grain requisition teams to the countryside, and the rations that farmers relied on were often taken away. This 'military' triggered violent social conflicts in the Soviet Union.  Peasant uprisings broke out in rural areas, and the sailors in Kronstadt rioted. This made Lenin feel that the Soviet regime was facing "the most serious political and economic crisis." In order to stabilize the situation and survive the crisis, he created the so-called "New Economy".  The policy was introduced. The 'New Economic Policy' decided to replace the grain collection system with a grain tax and allow the free sale of agricultural products. In terms of industry, the 'New Economic Policy' temporarily eased the crisis.  ' Lenin did not like it, and his successor Stalin hated it even more when the crisis seemed to be over, when the situation had stabilized, when measures to deal with resistance were more carefully planned, and when the dictatorship was in place.  The chains have been forged stronger, and when the fear in people's hearts has generally eliminated the impulse to resist, the 'New Economic Policy' should be abolished. Since the implementation of the 'New Economic Policy', Stalins wanted to abolish it as soon as possible.  In 1929, Stalin finally publicly announced: "To hell with the new economic policy!" So, what was re-implemented was not the "military" that had been the "Lenin model" before, but something harsher and more powerful than the "Lenin model".  The 'Stalin model' that ignores the people's right to survive. "First, almost all the farmers in Ukraine became rich peasants and became 'class enemies'. Then they announced the confiscation of every grain of grain and production materials in the region.  Including the seeds, all the furniture and livestock were taken away. Countless grain search teams ran into every house in the Ukraine, looking for grains hidden in the corners, under the beds, and on the roofs.  Everywhere was searched; potatoes, beets, cabbage, everything edible was taken away. So the hungry Ukrainians quickly tried to escape to other places, but it was impossible to find any way to the outside of Ukraine.  The roads were blocked. Some hungry and crazy children tried desperately to get out, so the KGB beat them to death like hares" "The food search team left. Maybe it was the body search team.  The food team directly became a corpse search team. The reason why they were "searching for corpses" instead of "collecting corpses" was because they could get 200 grams of bread for each corpse, which was a great temptation in the Soviet Union at that time.  So they began to 'search' for corpses very actively.  They threw the skinny corpses into huge pits like garbage, and then covered them with soil hastily.  When they searched for corpses, those who were still breathing, those whose bellies were still heaving with hunger, were often thrown into the pit as well.  After all, the body search team also wanted to get 200 grams of bread a day earlier.  sometimes.  The man who was still alive and still had the last bit of strength begged the body search team: ¡®I¡¯m not dead yet!  I want to live!  ¡¯ The body search team¡¯s answer was: ¡®Just die today, so we don¡¯t have to come back tomorrow!  'I once met a survivor who choked up and described what she had witnessed: when the body search team left the mass grave, the soil covering it was still crawling" "Ukraine, the most famous place in Europe  Granary, but the Soviet government led by Stalin consciously starved to death more than 7 million people. During this period, the total number of people who died in the Soviet Union due to hunger, disease, fleeing and other reasons reached almost 30 million  ¡­¡± ¡­ ¡°That¡¯s enough¡ª¡± Cuikov interrupted Qin Wei¡¯s reading with a loud roar¡­ But thenAfter Qin Wei's innocent expression, he sighed again. He knew that he had lost. Qin Wei had already put the "knife" on his neck "Kill Lyushkov, and we will help you!"
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