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• Use of "Twenty-five Thousanders"

  1. Sent to villages with orders to organize collective farms

  2. Instructed to act decisively against kulaks and establish collective farms
• Local Parties' Authority

  Empowered to use "necessary measures" against the kulaks
• Stalin believed in taking firm action against the kulaks without trying to neutralize them
• Soviet plans for exiling kulaks

  • Exiling 1 million kulak households (about 6 million people) to the north, Siberia, the Urals, and Kazakhstan
• By 1931, 1.4 million kulaks were in "special settlements" and many more were in labor camps or on the run
• Propaganda Campaign

  Communist Party launched a large-scale propaganda effort to promote collective farms and incite class hatred