Chapter 63. discourse

The process of industrialization is always accompanied by a series of negative effects, whether it is for the citizens of the cities or the peasants of the towns and villages, they have to endure the initial stages of industrialization, which is a conclusion that has been drawn in history. Squeezing the living space of peasants to make up for the various materials needed in the process of industrialization is basically a means adopted by all countries.

No matter in any country, the peasants will always be the largest in number, and although the grain they grow cannot be scarce, for a country, it is a low-level economic product, and it cannot be used as the main economic source for a long time, nor can it be used as a factor to enhance a country's strength.

Especially now in the early 20th century, there were no superweapons such as nuclear bombs as a deterrent, and a country's industrial strength was the most important indicator of its strength. Whether it is a country's economic strength or a country's military strength, it is determined by the industrial base and system, as well as the degree of integrity.

Industry, on the other hand, is also divided into two types: light industry and heavy industry. Light industry is basically a civil economic industry, which can produce a variety of daily or necessary industrial products and create a large amount of economic income. Heavy industry is really the top priority of a country, the core of a country.

In the initial stage of this industrialization, there is no doubt that the process efficiency can be maximized by compressing other industrial systems. Although the later industrial system will be fed back to other industries, the initial squeezing and squeezing is a kind of unbearable "torture" for other industries.

And for the people of Ukraine, the construction of a large-scale heavy industry system that is currently being carried out by the Soviet Union is so tormenting. A large amount of grain is collected and created into a country's foreign exchange in exchange for the necessary infrastructure for industrialization, but the food left behind is not enough to fill the stomach, and this torment can be fatal!

Especially for those in power in this era, they know that industrialization is an era that a country must go through if it wants to be strong, but they do not understand that once this kind of industrialization is implemented, there will be huge losses if there are no external factors as a checkpoint and balance.

It is like the Soviet Union, as we know it in previous lives, in order to carry out radical industrialization reforms, several ten-year plans and five-year plans have been quite successful, but the price of this success is based on the extreme reduction of agriculture and the oppression of other non-Russian peoples.

The famous "Cheka" organization was born at this stage, because too many peasants could not bear this torture and used a passive and rebellious attitude to resist this policy, which made them quite miserable at present. And if it had not been for the high-handed handling by the Soviet authorities and the launching of several wars to divert domestic attention, I am afraid the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Just like the famous Soviet-Finnish Winter War in the previous life, although its original intention was to occupy part of Finnish territory, it also had a series of consequences caused by Stalin's military reforms, economic reforms, and changes in the social system.

At that time, the Soviet Union had completed the initial process of industrialization, and with the Great Famine in Ukraine and the nationwide famine as a stepping stone, it finally succeeded in becoming a heavy industrial power. And relying on the Great Purge and high-level purge, in 1939, Stalin also succeeded in developing Soviet heavy industry to its peak, and began to launch the prelude to militarization reform.

"A group of rotting ruffians, Stalin was not stupid."

Li Yu and the nine soldiers behind him have re-crossed the Carpathian Mountains and successfully reached the Ukrainian border area along a stream that flows down the mountain. However, at this moment, he and the soldiers behind him were hiding in a dense forest, looking coldly at the distance, more than a dozen carriages pulling bags of grain driving on the road, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "If you just rely on this group of guys, I'm afraid it will really ruin the reputation of the Soviets." ”

"But they're court-martialed enough."

A Soviet Red Army soldier behind him clenched his fists, his eyes were already full of anger, looking at the dozen or so carriages that were slowly moving forward not far away, and the grain bags that were propped up high behind the carriages, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and said: "If it is those grains, I am afraid that the grain reserves of a village have been expropriated!" ”

"And even the seeds have been expropriated... My uncle told me about that history..."

A Soviet Red Army soldier next to him couldn't help but squint slightly, couldn't help but sigh slowly, looked at the dozen or so carriages that were driving below, shook his head and said: "It is said that the supply and marketing society will provide seeds, farm tools, ploughing horses and ploughing cattle in the coming year, but only a small part of the collective farms will receive seeds and farm tools in the second year. ”

Gently stopping the topic he wanted to continue, his eyes were also deep, because he also knew that the seeds, farm tools, and ploughing horses and cattle under the control of the collective farms and supply and marketing cooperatives did not return to the hands of the original peasants in the end. He couldn't help gritting his teeth and sighing: "How can that group of soldiers be Red Army soldiers!?" ”

"They're always robbing their families of food."

A Soviet Red Army soldier on the edge also bowed his head, he reached out and touched the military hat he was wearing on his forehead, and the red five-star in the middle made him feel a little emotional. Looking at Li Yu in the middle, he shook his head helplessly and said, "Won't the political commissar take care of this group of guys who have been corrupted by feudalism?" ”

"My father once told me that at that time, there was almost no land to grow much food."

Another Soviet Red Army soldier also sighed, he also remembered a series of things that his father had told him, and even they themselves had such a tragic history of starvation because of their youth. The Soviet Red Army soldier clenched the Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand, looked at Li Yu and said: "Comrade Levsky, I think you also know that the political commissar has no role in stopping it at all. ”

"Well, of course."

Nodding heavily, Li Yu did not deny their words, because this was indeed the truth. The collective farms, which once nationalized seeds, farm implements, and ploughing cattle and horses, have all deployed this policy and drawn a beautiful blueprint. However, because the Soviets needed a large number of grain quotas, the supply and marketing cooperatives and collective farms handed over all the seeds of the peasants for the coming year, without thinking at all about how these peasants, who had no seeds, would live in the next year.

And this is also an important reason for the Great Famine in Ukraine, after a famine year, because of the lack of experienced farmers, instructors, and panicked farmers, plus not enough seeds to plant even all the land, finally in Ukraine, known as the "breadbasket of Europe", in 1933 the Holodomor broke out in the real **!

Millions of people starved to death, causing more or less sequelae for the young people of the Ukrainian generation as a whole, and even for the entire population of Ukraine, it was a decline as a whole. And this is still an official figure, how many people starved to death in private, what kind of bad impact it caused, and even bigger and farther!

Looking at the large number of Ukrainian partisans who sprung up on Ukrainian soil after the Holodomor, even if the Ukrainian people who would rather warmly welcome the SS of Nazi Germany than the native Ukrainian armed forces that were regained by the Soviet Union, we can know what kind of bad consequences and indelible impressions this Holodomor has caused in the hearts of the Ukrainian people.

However, the Ukrainians were full of joy and thought that the Soviet Union's oppression of them was over, but they did not expect that the genocide and discrimination of Nazi Germany would appear on them again. The Germans, who pretended to be a superior Germanic race, treated their group of Yugoslavs as slaves who were only half superior to animals, or rather, inferior to animals!

"Let's go down and take a look, it seems that after we left, a lot happened."

Frowning slightly, Li Yu gritted his teeth and touched his Mosin Nagant rifle behind him, turned his head and said to the nine Soviet Red Army soldiers around him: "Be careful, don't shoot casually!" He first walked out of the bushes, careful not to look at the Soviet grain convoys in the distance, for just beyond the horizon the outlines of a number of collective farms were emerging.