Here is the anti-USSR Ukrainian ultranationalist Isaak Mazepa writing in a respected Western Journal in 1933-34:
"The opposition of the Ukrainian population caused the failure of the grain-storing plan of 1931, and still more so, that of 1932” He boasts of the success of the“passive resistance which aimed at a systematic frustration of the Bolshevik plans for the sowing and gathering of the harvest... Whole tracts were left unsown,” and “in addition, when the crop was being gathered last year [1932], it happened that, in many areas, especially in the south, 20, 40 and even 50% was left in the fields, and was either not collected at all or was ruined in the threshing.”
Mazepa is literally cheering the efforts of the Kulaks to destroy food & infiltrate collectives & destabilize the USSR... he was a respected Ukrainian nationalist politician & published academic & agronomist.
This was not a “live and let live” scenario. As long as the kulaks existed, they would continue to attack and destroy any alternative system to the one in which they owned capital.
Here is the anti-USSR Ukrainian ultranationalist Isaak Mazepa writing in a respected Western Journal in 1933-34:
"The opposition of the Ukrainian population caused the failure of the grain-storing plan of 1931, and still more so, that of 1932” He boasts of the success of the“passive resistance which aimed at a systematic frustration of the Bolshevik plans for the sowing and gathering of the harvest... Whole tracts were left unsown,” and “in addition, when the crop was being gathered last year [1932], it happened that, in many areas, especially in the south, 20, 40 and even 50% was left in the fields, and was either not collected at all or was ruined in the threshing.”
Mazepa is literally cheering the efforts of the Kulaks to destroy food & infiltrate collectives & destabilize the USSR... he was a respected Ukrainian nationalist politician & published academic & agronomist.
This was not a “live and let live” scenario. As long as the kulaks existed, they would continue to attack and destroy any alternative system to the one in which they owned capital.
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