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    1 year ago

    Also Stalin, in the lead up to the famine:

    The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.

    Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee, J Stalin (Archive of the President of the Russian Federation 1932)

    They basically knew that kulaks were sabotaging grain production in the Ukraine.