Collectivization of agriculture, which, Joseph Stalin began in 1929, was the policy of cruelity, organized with the reckoning. It did not bring any benefit to the citizens of the USSR. The purpose of this policy was to have all holdings and farms of peasnats under country's control.The result of this policy was a famine, which destroyed million of lives, especially in Ukraine. Those who did not want hand over voluntarily the farm voluntarily or those who protested were treated very brutally and ruthlessy by Stalin's 'people. Some people had to die, others were deported to labor camps or to Siberia. This was a deliberate political act directed against defenseless people.In Ukraine, where peasant uprising took place, Stalin ordered to destroyed all the crops and also to block food supplies, so that massive famine occured and the rebeles died of hunger. Kolkhozes and state farms - collectivized farms did not work well, but still had to fulfill the compulsory transfer of food supply to the country. As a result of this policy, there was nothing to eat in the countryside, because everything they produced, the Soviet state took from them.
Joseph Stalin sought to rapid industrialization of the country. His ambitious economic goals were contained in the five-year plans. Implementation of the planned economy had to lead people out of economic cultural and military backwardness. Stalin's intentions were mainly concentrated on heavy industry such as coal mining, construction of steel mills, iron and steel production. He expanded rail network and improved transportation. Stalin wanted to compete with other powers at any cost, and guard against their invasion. Implementing a policy of planned economy, he introduced very strict regulations regarding to discipline at work. The workers were forced into slave labor. There was a shortage of basic goods such as food, clothing, cleaning products. The workers were deprived of social conditions. For every misdemeanor such as being late, they were severely punished (for example: they were immediately fired and left without any food supplies) Those responsible for other workers, were arrested or even punished with death if the workers worked not as expected. It was necessary to be successful at work and it was only the achievements which were taken into consideration.All these activities were supported by the communist, mendacious propaganda of success.Man was not important, there was only the plan, in which even the most difficult tasks could be done, although there were neither prizes nor pay rises for that. People had to do this, because if not, death awaited them.
From 1926 in USSR,the Soviet system of forced labor was compulsory.This work would be a method of reeducation for people who criticized by Soviet authorities many times.People were punished for diversion and sabotage. They were suspected ofconspiracies. They were victims of so-called purges in the party and the army.Joseph Stalin was obsessively possessed with the idea of getting ride of all his opponents and dissidents.So he threatened all of executions and deportations to places of detention. As a result of this cruel policy, thousands of political prisoners died.They died from overwork, malnutrition and frostbite. In the gulags, which were introduced in 1934, terrible sanitation was present in a everyday life. There were no hospitals and basic medical care. Weak organisms died massively. These people ,separated from loved ones no one knows for how long, lived without any hope. They had no access to cultural life and had to fight for biological survival in harsh climatic conditions (in the far north and east). Stalin took their dignity away. They were exploited as cheap labor in the process of realizing tasks of the next three five-year plans initiated in 1929.'In the camps, the convicts met with sadism and senseless torture. Descriptions of these practices can be found in many diaries'
Joseph Stalin, with his desire to transform USSR into a modern industrial power, murdered milion of its citizens. it turned out that Lenin was not mistaken as to the brutality of Stalin. This brutality manifested itself in many forms: persecution for criticizing the party, violence, repression, terror, confiscation of peasants' properties, slave labors, intimidation,suspecting everyone of disloyalty, restrictions on freedom, exposing people to hunger, diseases,creating inhuman working conditions, executions, propaganda. The life of the average man did not mean anything to Joseph Stalin. Stalin's regime was totalitarian. It was characterized by oppression, humiliation and a cult of personality. Stalin controlled all aspects of humans' life, introduced strict censorship and repression of political opponents. Until 1939, during the compulsory collectivisation of agriculture and industrialization of industry, citizens of USSR suffered too many casualties.Therefore, I believe that Stalin caused to people nothing but harm in this time because he was primarily a criminal.
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franciss09 (student)
