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This is not REAL capitalism! (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Kulaks were literal exploiters. Maybe learn some history, you'll find out why the term means a fist.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you should do some reading too.

There were no serfs in the 20th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_serfdom_in_Livonia

And the people considered kulaks by Stalin were often the same peasants, who got pieces of land taken from the actual nobility in the interwar land reform: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Land_Reform_of_1920

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell us, why were they called kulaks little buddy?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

During the first five-year plan, Joseph Stalin's all-out campaign to take land ownership and organisation away from the peasantry meant that, according to historian Robert Conquest, "peasants with a couple of cows or five or six acres [~2 ha] more than their neighbors" were labeled kulaks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak

So owning marginally more than your neighbours. Wow, what a horrible crime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You make it sound so wholesome using your sanitized history from natopedia, meanwhile here's the reality, your grand grandparents were exploiting scumbags

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/149521

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some 72% of deportees were women and children under the age of 16.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi

Ah yes, getting skinned alive so hard by women and children.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Getting skinned alive by the men who ran these scumbag exploiter families. I love how even when presented with actual research proving how full of shit you are, you keep digging. I guess runs in the family.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really doubt that Moscow deported women and children out of either collective punishment or misidentification. It’s more reasonable that it was simply Soviet policy to keep families together as much as possible.

Of course, if Moscow did separate the relatives, then antisocialists would go from griping about ‘collective punishment’ to griping about ‘separating loved ones’ instead. In any case, antisocialists rarely attempt to understand their opponents’ motives, especially in detail. All that you need to know is that the Soviets committed atrocities against innocents and that’s it. They did it just ’cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Also a very good point.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Showing a paragraph with a nasty description does not really prove anything, I could find you endless paragraphs that say nasty things about communists.

Here's some other research:

Available here, page 126

Do you fathom, how little land 5ha actually is for farming? Especially considering, that even the Western Soviet Union is generally not densely populated.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Do you even know how people farmed during that time? 😂 A 5ha operation needed dozens of people, they farmed by hand and horse.

5ha is 50,000 square meters. The average city block in the US is 2ha (200mx100m), to put into perspective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Again, these were the people who exploited others in brutal conditions. Hence why they were called fists. The minimal size of the property these fucks had isn't really the counter point you seem to think it is. Keep digging buddy.