• unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Showing a paragraph with a nasty description does not really prove anything, I could find you endless paragraphs that say nasty things about communists.

    Here’s some other research:

    Available here, page 126

    Do you fathom, how little land 5ha actually is for farming? Especially considering, that even the Western Soviet Union is generally not densely populated.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      7 months ago

      Again, these were the people who exploited others in brutal conditions. Hence why they were called fists. The minimal size of the property these fucks had isn’t really the counter point you seem to think it is. Keep digging buddy.

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        7 months ago

        Notice the weight-bearing words “at first” in your own cited research? Etymology is not a valid argument when the definition of a term drastically changes, in this case becoming much broader. My point is, most “kulaks” deported by Stalin from the Baltics were new landowners with not a lot of land and at most a few paid workers. At least in the case of Latvia, these workers were commonly seasonal labourers from Poland (that came here willingly).

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      7 months ago

      Do you even know how people farmed during that time? 😂 A 5ha operation needed dozens of people, they farmed by hand and horse.

      5ha is 50,000 square meters. The average city block in the US is 2ha (200mx100m), to put into perspective.