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Holodomor
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Causes of Holodomor 1 | Stalin threatened by Ukr's strengthening culture due to Ukrainization and prevented Ukr's intellectuals, church leaders and communist party members that supported pro-Ukr policies from seeking independence by execution & arrests |
Causes of Holodomor 2 | Stalin decreed First Five Year Plan-->collectivization of agriculture (NEP ended), Soviets had direct control of Ukr's agricultural resources & could control supply of grain for export-->used to fund USSR's industrial power |
Causes of Holodomor 3 | Majority of rural farmers resisted collectivization-->forced to surrender land, farming tools, and work in govt farms as laborers. |
Causes of Holodomor 4 | Wealthy farmers who opposed (kulaks)-->enemies of state, elimination crucial to collect.: warning to ppl who opposed, means to transfer land to collect. farms, means to rid village leadership. Kulaks rid of land, homes, executed/deported by secret police. |