Who are the hens? So called at the beginning of the last century a special category of peasants. The meaning of the word "curcul" is not always known to those who use it, believing that it is a synonym for such nouns as hunks, money-grubbers, grabbers.
The punishment for greed
Once, about a hundred years ago, the not very flattering word "fist" was widely used. The verb "dispossess" was formed from him, which means depriving a prosperous peasant of all that he has acquired through excessive labor. Is this fair? The question is rhetorical and does not require an answer. Nevertheless, in the twenties, those who could not work or did not know how, dekulakization was a kind of retribution, punishment for greed and money-grubbing.
Nationalization decree
Who are the hens? These are the same fists, but who lived in Ukraine. Who gave one the right to take property from others? The new power established after the revolution. In December 1917, a law was passed according to which the land now belonged to the state. However, not only the earth. The process of nationalization has undergone industry.
All financial activities were now under strict control. This control was carried out by representatives of the proletariat, which they knew about before, but tried not to think. Now it was impossible to ignore them. They were everywhere, setting their laws, putting them into effect, and they did it all quite categorically, without compromise.
Destruction of landlord tenure
For quite some time, many peasants dreamed of only one thing - how to seize the property of the landowners. Finally their dream came true. True, not quite as the peasants would like. The estates, of course, were plundered, burned. The landowners who did not have time to escape were shot. Still, satisfaction did not come. First of all, because not only the landlords, but also the kurkul lost their property.
Who are the fists? These are peasants who knew how to work, and therefore did not suffer from poverty. As a rule, the so-called kurkuli did not take part in the arsons of the landed estates. They used to work, and they did not have time for all sorts of political and state events. But only until the Bolsheviks paid attention to them.
Dispossession
Peasants now had to deliver groceries to the city. Anyone who did not do this was punished rather severely. Residents of villages now had to maintain factories. But only those that belonged to the middle and impoverished categories. The prosperous became less and less every year. Who are the hens? These are peasants who became victims of the first wave of political repression. In the early twenties they were sent to Siberia, many died on the way.
Disposal of money began in 1917, lasted for five to six years. Lenin first voiced the idea of the need to destroy kulaks in December 1918. At the same time, he cited arguments that seemed quite convincing to his contemporaries. The revolutionary said that if the Bolsheviks could not destroy all the wealthy peasants, sooner or later the tsar would return to power. The emperor, as well as members of his family, had already been shot by that time. He could not return anywhere. However, the words of Lenin should not be taken literally.
Victims of repression
Representatives of the so-called poor committees took an active part in dispossession. In the fight against "money-grubbers" they also used fairly radical methods. Peasant houses were burned, their owners exiled to Siberia. Those who participated in this inhuman, unjust process were guided by a desire to assert themselves in a new life, and besides, envy, stupidity, and a feeling of impunity played a big role here. In 1923, wealthy peasants were no longer in Russia or in Ukraine. In total, about 4 million people were dispossessed. More than 500 thousand peasants died in exile.