I'd take your answer with a massive grain of salt, as it points out some anti-communist propaganda lies, but it also ignores any real arguments against it, i.e., Stalinist policies that actively squeezed the peasants and exacerbated the famine.
One specific error that I often see in lefty circles is a caricature and demonization of the kulaks, which misunderstands who they were. The historical term was quite vague and was loosely applied to many categories of better-off peasants - some of these were actual landlords, some were just rich enough to be able to hire landless peasants to help with the field work (which was how landless peasants earned a living since before the revolution), some were just the peasant with the nicest house and pair of boots in a village a hundred kilometers from the nearest city, and some got labeled kulaks when unsupervised officials were sent to said bumfuck, nowhere and given free reign.
Some grain-hoarding kulaks or just Fuck You, I Got Mine anti-Soviet kulaks existed, but they were a minor factor in history. Stalin led a campaign against the kulaks as a way to get the rest of the peasantry on his side. It didn't really work in terms of increasing the grain output and lots of people got abused for nothing, even if some of them were economic parasites.
Also - only Kazakhstan is in Central Asia. Ukraine and Southern Russia (North Caucasus, Volga region) are in Europe.
I'd take your answer with a massive grain of salt, as it points out some anti-communist propaganda lies, but it also ignores any real arguments against it, i.e., Stalinist policies that actively squeezed the peasants and exacerbated the famine.
One specific error that I often see in lefty circles is a caricature and demonization of the kulaks, which misunderstands who they were. The historical term was quite vague and was loosely applied to many categories of better-off peasants - some of these were actual landlords, some were just rich enough to be able to hire landless peasants to help with the field work (which was how landless peasants earned a living since before the revolution), some were just the peasant with the nicest house and pair of boots in a village a hundred kilometers from the nearest city, and some got labeled kulaks when unsupervised officials were sent to said bumfuck, nowhere and given free reign.
Some grain-hoarding kulaks or just Fuck You, I Got Mine anti-Soviet kulaks existed, but they were a minor factor in history. Stalin led a campaign against the kulaks as a way to get the rest of the peasantry on his side. It didn't really work in terms of increasing the grain output and lots of people got abused for nothing, even if some of them were economic parasites.
Also - only Kazakhstan is in Central Asia. Ukraine and Southern Russia (North Caucasus, Volga region) are in Europe.