The agriculture of the USSR is a continuous tragedy in the history of our state. The poorest people live and work in this area, although without their labor, none of us actually costs anything. Serfdom, which for centuries had oppressed the most able-bodied and patient part of the population, was replaced by the complete collectivization of agriculture in the USSR, which removed the peasant from the results of his labor and inevitably killed his zealous owner. Let’s see what actually happened in those distant years for us, when the fate of not one country, but a whole complex of states that today are forced to roll back many years ago in their development, was actually decided.
20s of the twentieth century. The civil war ended and the Bolsheviks were able to successfully establish themselves at the helm of power. Economic backwardness, it would seem, was overcome because the pre-war level of indicators was achieved. But around the USSR there was not a single state similar to it. And this meant that the heights at which the Soviet Union was located would have to be kept and taken by storm all the time. To become a superpower, it was necessary to “catch up and overtake” the bourgeois camp, where modernization was in its prime. And in the USSR, as luck would have it, a grain procurement crisis erupted . The era of the “great turning point” was approaching, when not only industrialization was to be accomplished many times faster than what was happening in Western countries. It was necessary to break the psychology of man, giving him hope for the quick realization of all hopes for a brighter future. And one of the ways to achieve a quick take-off, a piggy bank for modernization in the Soviet way, was the village. So in 1929 began the forced collectivization of agriculture in the USSR.
The first and main blow was dealt to the kulaks. And this was the most prosperous part of the peasantry, which did not want to share what they acquired was unknown with anyone and to be part of collective farms. Having eliminated the kulaks as a class, the Soviet government provided not only the financial base of the rapidly growing industrialization, but also created material support for the public households themselves. And at the same time, a huge number of the most enterprising and skillful owners in the village were wiped off the face of the earth. These were people who knew a lot about work and economy, were prudent and thrifty. The trouble was that the exact definition of the term “fist” was not worked out, which gave rise to various schemers to crack down on everyone who had once crossed the road to him somehow. And the middle peasants and even the poor were often proclaimed “Podkulakites”, and their families were also subjected to repression. So, a machine called collectivization of agriculture in the USSR swept away everything that at least somehow resisted cutting under one comb. 25 thousand city communists with the help of the committees of the poor, among whose members were illiterate peasants, more often than not able and unwilling to work, carried out dispossession and carried out Stalin’s plan to approve the totalitarian regime by 100%.
The complete collectivization of agriculture has had disastrous results. Gross grain production decreased, the number of cattle and horses was reduced by almost a third. No one wanted to part with their good just like that and preferred to destroy it than to give it to the expropriators. However, the collectivization of agriculture in the USSR reached its goal, because the industrialization leap was nevertheless accomplished. Agriculture of the USSR lost a huge number of workers. At the same time, the agrarian overpopulation of the country was put to an end, and the city learned an incredible amount of cheap free working hands, ready to work for a piece of bread.