Who are kurkuli?So called at the beginning of the last century a special category of peasants. The meaning of the word "kurkul" is not always known to those who use it, believing that it is a synonym for such nouns as a miser, possessor, grabber.
Punishment for greed
Once upon a time, about a hundred years ago, widethe spread was not very flattering word "fist". The verb "to dispossess" was formed from him, which means to deprive a wealthy peasant of all that they have acquired by overwork. Is it fair? The question is rhetorical and does not require an answer. Nevertheless, in the twenties, those who could not work or could not, considered dekulakization something of retribution, punishment for greed and greed.
Decree on nationalization
Who are kurkuli?These are the same fists, but living in Ukraine. Who gave one the right to take property from others? New power installed after the revolution. In December 1917, a law was passed, according to which the land now belonged to the state. However, not only the land. The process of nationalization has undergone and industry.
All financial activity is now understrict control. This control was carried out by representatives of the proletariat, who had previously been known, but tried not to think. Now it became impossible not to notice them. They were everywhere, established their laws, brought them into action, and they did it all quite categorically, without compromise.
Destruction of landed property
Many peasants for quite a long timeof time they dreamed of only one thing — how to seize the property of the landlords. Finally, their dream came true. True, not quite the way the peasants would like. Estate, of course, looted, burned. Landowners who did not have time to escape, were shot. Still, there was no satisfaction. First of all, because not only landlords lost their property, but also Kurkul.
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 arson of landlords' estates. They used to work, and they did not have time for all sorts of political and state events. But only as long as the Bolsheviks did not pay attention to them.
Disposition
Peasants now had to supply productsin town. The one who did not commit this was punished rather severely. Villagers now had to contain factories. But only those that belonged to the middle and impoverished categories. The wealthy became every year less and less. Who are kurkuli? These are peasants who were victims of the first wave of political repression. In the early twenties, they were sent to Siberia, many died on the way.
Dispossession began in 1917, continuedfor five to six years. Lenin first voiced the idea of the need to destroy his fists in December 1918. At the same time, he argued that his contemporaries seemed quite convincing. The revolutionary said that if the Bolsheviks did not succeed in destroying all the prosperous peasants, sooner or later the king would return to power. The emperor, like his family members, had already been shot by that time. He could not go back anywhere. However, the words of Lenin should not be taken literally.
Victims of repression
In the dispossession of active participationrepresentatives of the so-called committees of the poor. In the fight against the "scavengers" they also used rather radical methods. Peasant houses were burned, their owners were exiled to Siberia. Those who participated in this inhuman, unfair process were guided by the desire to assert themselves in the new life, and besides, envy, stupidity and a sense of impunity played a big role here. In 1923, there were no wealthy peasants either in Russia or in Ukraine. In total about 4 million people were dispossessed. More than 500 thousand peasants died in exile.
