Today in History: #4 on the list of Collectivism's Greatest Hits

On this date in 1929, good ol' Josef Stalin announced that it was time for the liquidation of the kulaks as a class.

Note that this did not mean the state would take control of the land of prosperous farmers and then let the prosperous farmers administer the now collectivized farms. The state just wanted the land, the farmers went to the gulags. What could possibly go wrong?
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