The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants took part in 13, 754 mass disturbances. In 1929 and 1930, the OGPU recorded 22, 887 "terrorists acts" aimed at local officials and peasant activists, more than 1, 100 murders. Lynne Viola
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
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Norman Mailer
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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Murray N. Rothbard
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
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Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
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Stefan Molyneux
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Fulton J. Sheen
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The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants took part in 13, 754 mass disturbances. In 1929 and 1930, the OGPU recorded 22,...
In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization...
Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev
