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

hectare of land stamped as class enemies. The agricultural production
levels sank massively after the collectivisation.
After this, Stalin's henchman Kaganovich organised a famine during
the years 1932-33 which sent nearly eight million Ukrainians and two
million Russians in northern Caucasia, by the Volga Delta, and in other
places, to their graves. The British historian Robert Conquest has even
claimcd that the number of victims amounted to 15 million. ("The Harvest
of Sorrow", Alberta, 1986.) Several Russian historians have arrived at the
same figure. The famine was brought about by ordering troops to
confiscate the entire grain reserve. The United States calmly watched as
this tragedy took place. In Yalta, Stalin cynically assured Churchill and
Roosevelt that ten million people had fallen victim to his reforms. He
undercstimated the total, which has later been estimated at closer to 48
million. All rumours about the famine were officially denied, no help was
given to the suffering areas, no (humiliating) aid from abroad would be
accepted.
As previously mentioned, a new famine was organised in the Ukraine
between 1946 and 1947, in which two million people died. At the same
time, the Ukrainians were forced to supply the Soviet Army (several
million men) with food. The Chinese and Ethiopian Communists also used
starvation as a weapon.
The collectivisation caused an enormous erosion of earth from the
usable land, which resulted in the destruction of many villages and later
led to the introduction of a rationing system.
The historian Sergei Kharlamov, a specialist on the circumstances sur-
rounding the forced collectivisation, emphasised that the first five-year
plan caused a backlash in the industrial production since the Russians
wasted large amounts of metals, resources and energy, often to no pur-
pose. Sergei Kharlamov even goes so far as to claim that if the German-
Soviet conflict had broken out a few years later than 1941, the Soviet
Union would have broken apart on its own as a result of Stalin's economy
and oppression. Kharlamov wrote the following about the politics of the
Soviet Union: "There were no advances. Quite the opposite, in fact."
Wagens Nyheter, 7th of April 1988.) Moscow's Communist leadership
becamc over more dependent on American aid. That was the intention. A
similar situation occurred in China in the 1950s during the so-called
"Great Lcap Forward".
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