"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

250 000 tractors were needed for the collectivisation. Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
accordingly increased their aid contributions to Moscow in order to
neutralise the independent peasant (he was much too dangerous for the
dictators) and force him to work on the kolkhozes (kibbutzes).
Eighty American companies took part in the building of three gigantic
tractor factories in Russia. The factory in Stalingrad was actually built in
the United States, brought to the Soviet Union in parts and fitted together
in three months. Twenty-six American companies joined in this project
alone. The Bolsheviks wanted to produce 50 000 tanks and caterpillar
tractors each year. Factories were built in the same way in Kharkov and
Chelyabinsk. The building of the last-named tractor and tank factory was
planned and led by an engineer from Detroit named Calder. In the be-
ginning, these factories were all supervised by Western engineers.
The Americans also built a modern asbestos industry for Moscow and
designed the irrigation system for Central Asia, which has now virtually
destroyed the Aral Sea. It shrank from 62 000 square kilometres in 1923 to
just 40 000 in 1990.
The independent farmers and peasants were regarded as especially
dangerous since the agricultural system had once more begun to produce a
surplus of foodstuffs. The agricultural expert Vladimir Tikhonov also
confirmed in Literaturnaya Gazeta on the 4th of August 1988 that Stalin's
claim that the collectivisation had been undertaken due to the food
shortage was entirely false. In actual fact, the agricultural system had
begun recuperating fairly quickly after Lenin had given the peasants their
land back and abolished the government control of them. The situation
was almost normal by 1927 and Russia had once more begun exporting
grain. 100 000 tons of grain were exported by Russia in 1928, 1.3 million
tons in 1929, 4.8 million tons in 1930 and 5.1 million tons in 1931.
At this point Stalin and Kaganovich began to implement Trotsky's
insane idea of agricultural collectivisation. Stalin declared that, after the
quick industrialisation (which was called 'perestroika'), they would be
able to supply the cities with food from giant farms. That argument was
completely fallacious, according to Tikhonov.
Fifteen million people lost their homes as a result of the collectivi-
sation. Many peasants ran away from the kolkhoses to the cities. One
million were sent to labour camps and 12 million were deported to Siberia,
because Stalin and Kaganovich had all peasants who owned more than one
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