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.
Also Stalin, in the lead up to the famine:
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.