Cui Kefu's heart was tugged up by Qin Wei's words again.

He was suddenly a little scared to talk to this man.

"Holodomor in Ukraine"! It was a taboo subject in the Soviet Union, especially among their high-ranking officials. In order to prevent the matter of the Great Famine from being known, the Soviet government carried out a strict information blockade, but how did this guy in front of him know about it?

Everyone knows that the Holodomor in Ukraine was actually a disaster of Stalin's agricultural collectivization movement, and the cause of the famine was caused by natural factors, but more importantly, human factors. There was more or less speculation among the top echelons of the Soviet Union that the famine might have been a deliberate genocide against the Ukrainian nation.

Chuikov knew that one of the main people responsible for the Holodomor in Ukraine, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine at that time, Stanislav. Vikentievich. In the summer of 1930, at a meeting of local Communist cadres, Kosiol issued a directive that the Ukrainian peasants were unwilling to cooperate with the Soviet regime and tried to strangle it, but that the enemies of the CPSU regime had miscalculated, and that the task of the communist cadres was to go to the Ukrainian countryside to collect the hidden grain and let the peasants taste hunger. …… This is even more terrible than the "surplus grain collection system" adopted when the Soviet Union was first established. It is important to know that the introduction of the "surplus grain collection system" was because the Soviet Union, which had just been born at that time, was faced with a large number of internal and external enemies, and there was a shortage of grain on the front line. In order to defeat the enemy, Lenin and others used such a hand. And relying on the surplus grain collection system, the Soviet power had enough food and quickly suppressed the enemy. But at the same time, due to the lack of effective management in the implementation process, some areas adopted simple and crude methods, which provoked the revolt of the peasants in many areas...... So. In 1921, Lenin and others proposed the New Economic Policy, and the surplus grain collection system was finally replaced by a grain tax.

However, when the Great Famine occurred in Ukraine, the Communist Party of Ukraine regained the "surplus grain collection system...... In 1932 and 1933, when the Holodomor was at its peak, there were even instances of cannibalism in rural Ukraine, as well as the re-exhumation of the carcasses of buried cats, dogs, domestic animals and people in the winter. Of course, these things were not recognized by the Soviet government, and their external tone was similar to that of the New York Times reporter who won the "Pulitzer" Prize for reporting on the brilliant results of the Soviet Union's five-year plan. Duranti reported the same: there was no famine in Ulanke. Nor is it likely to happen.

Because Ukraine is the most famous granary of Europe.

But this matter can't be hidden from people of the level of Chuikov.

As a result of the forced collectivization of agriculture, a large number of CPSU members were sent to the countryside to mobilize peasant households to join collective farms. As a result, these people met with passive and active resistance in Ukraine, which eventually led to the mass arrest and exile of the Ukrainian "kulaks" in the Soviet Union. A large number of Ukrainian peasant households, who are skilled in farming and have a lot of experience in agriculture, are classified as "kulaks". The family's exile to Siberia and Central Asia led to a decline in indigenous agricultural production techniques and productivity. And the peasant households who were spared exile. Because of the fear of being classified as a kulak. The reluctance to farm, as a direct consequence, was the collapse of Ukrainian grain production in 1932. It was expected that 90.7 million tons of grain could be harvested throughout the Soviet Union, but only 55 million to 60 million tons were actually harvested. The amount of grain collected by the Soviet government also fell to 18.5 million tons from the expected 26.5 million tons. In order to solve the problem of food shortage, on August 7, 1932, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a new decree stipulating that "theft of collective farm property" was punishable by death. This decree essentially prohibits farmers from appropriating any agricultural product for themselves. Until January 1933. 79,000 peasants were arrested on this charge, of whom 4,880 were sentenced to death.

And after prohibiting the peasants from taking possession of the harvested grain, on December 6, 1932, the Politburo of the CPSU issued another order. All means of production throughout Ukraine, including farm implements, livestock, seeds, etc., will be brought into public ownership, and the movement of any grain and manufactured goods into the Ukrainian countryside will be prohibited, and the sale of goods and agricultural products will be prohibited throughout Ukraine. In addition, grain search teams were sent to rural Ukraine, confiscating farmers' surpluses, rations and seed grains.

In addition, from 1933 onwards, the Soviet authorities adopted a new method of grain statistics, which used "biological yield" to exaggerate the yield of the farmland, without actually receiving the figures from the barn, with the aim of using this "biological yield" as a quantitative measure to force the collective farms to pay more grain. But this did not do any good for actual agricultural production, except that the Soviet agricultural production in the 30s and 40s was more numerically than any foreign expert could imagine.

And because of the implementation of several punitive measures against Ukraine, a few months later, by the spring of 1933, an extremely severe famine began throughout Ukraine. Although the CPSU and the Politburo of Ukraine issued some remedial orders, including the delivery of 320,000 tons of grain to the famine areas, the movement of grain out of Ukraine has not stopped. In the spring of that year, the famine was exacerbated by a drought in western Russia and much of Ukraine. However, the Soviet government banned the movement of the affected people, and the communication between Ukraine and the Don River valley was interrupted, and travel to these areas was banned. Any starving people who try to leave Ukraine without permission are arrested as "class enemies".

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"But these things should be tightly sealed. Even within the Soviet Union, people like me did not know the specific situation, and it was impossible for the outside world to know the truth. How do the Chinese know the Tao? Thinking of what he knew, or hearsay, or through other means, or through some information he had summarized, Cui Kefu's eyes when he looked at Qin Wei began to bring murderous intent - this Chinese is too dangerous and should be eliminated!

But Qin Wei didn't seem to feel anything about it, he didn't know where Lu Dao took out a newspaper and spread it on the table in front of him, and then began to chant some words:

"Immediately after the 'October Revolution,' the Bolshevik Party practiced 'military communism' in the economy, and monopolized and expropriated grain. In fact, this kind of 'military communism' is not necessarily related to 'military'. Lenin declared before the October Revolution that 'the monopoly of grain, the rationing of bread and the universal obligation of labour are in the hands of the proletarian state the most powerful means of calculation and supervision. Therefore, 'military communism' was, in Lenin's view, a fundamental state policy, and not merely a wartime expediency......"

“…… In order to exercise a complete and complete monopoly on grain, the state sent a large number of grain collection teams to the rural areas, and the rations on which the peasants depended for their livelihood were often taken away. This 'military communism' gave rise to violent social contradictions, and peasant uprisings broke out in the countryside all over the Soviet Union. The sailors of Kronstadt rebelled. This made Lenin feel that the Soviet power was facing 'the worst political and economic crisis'. In order to stabilize the situation and overcome the crisis, the so-called 'New Economic Policy' was introduced. The NEP decided to replace the grain levy system with a grain tax and allow agricultural products to be bought and sold freely. On the industrial side, restrictions have also been loosened to a certain extent...... and the 'New Economic Policy' has temporarily eased the crisis. However, the 'New Economic Policy' is a last resort in the face of a serious crisis. Lenin did not like it, and his successor, Stalin, hated it even more. When the crisis seems to have passed, when the situation has stabilized, when the measures to deal with the revolt have been more elaborately arranged, when the chains of the dictatorship have been forged stronger, when the terror in the hearts of the people has generally dissipated the impulse to resist, the NEP should be abolished. And since the introduction of the NEP, the Stalin wanted to abolish it as soon as possible. In 1929, Stalin finally publicly declared: 'To hell with the NEP!' Thus, instead of the 'military communism' that had been the 'Lenin model' before, it was the 'Stalin model' that was more severe than the 'Lenin model' and more disregarded for the people's right to exist. ”

“…… First of all, the peasants of the Ukrainian regions almost all became kulaks, 'class enemies'. This was followed by the announcement of the confiscation of all food and means of production in the area. Every grain of grain, including seeds, is in communal ownership. All furniture, all livestock, were taken away. Numerous food search teams are rampage through the regions of Ukraine. They broke into every house, and searched the corners, under the beds, on the roofs, all the places where a few grains of grain might be hidden; Potatoes, beets, cabbage, everything that can be eaten is snatched. So, hunger soon came. Ukrainians, starving to death, tried to flee to the field, but there was no way. All roads leading to the outside in Ukraine are blocked. Some hungry children were desperate to break out, so the KGB beat them to death like hares......"

“…… The food search team is gone. The corpse search team is coming. Perhaps, it was the grain search team that directly turned into a corpse search team. The reason why they 'search' rather than 'collect' is that for each corpse disposed of, they were given 200 grams of bread. And this was a great temptation in the USSR at that time. So they were very active in 'searching' the body. They threw the skinny corpses into huge pits like garbage, and then hastily covered them with dirt. When they searched for the bodies, those who were still breathing, those whose bellies were still heaving with hunger, were often thrown into the pit in the same way. After all, the corpse search team also wanted to get 200 grams of bread a day earlier. Sometimes. The man who was still alive and still had the last strength pleaded with the corpse search team: 'I'm not dead yet!' I want to live! The reply of the corpse searcher was: 'Die today, so that we don't have to come back tomorrow!' ’…… I once met a survivor who choked up and described what she had witnessed: the dirt covering the mass grave was still wriggling when the body search team left the mass grave......"

"Ukraine, the most famous granary in Europe, was consciously starved to death by the Soviet government led by Stalin, and during this period, the total number of people who died in the Soviet Union due to hunger, disease, famine and other reasons reached almost 30 million ......"

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"That's enough—"

Chuikov yelled and interrupted Qin Wei's reading...... But after Qin Wei's innocent expression, he sighed again, he knew that he had lost, and Qin Wei had already put the "knife" on his neck......

"Kill Ryusikov, we will give you assistance!" (To be continued......)