Stalin was a very cruel man and he singled out the kulaks. He put them in camps were the were starved, the food was taken away from them and many people died. The women were beat and raped, if the risisted the were murdered.
He declared open war against them in favor of the collective farms in 1930, and either deported them to GULAG, forced them onto collective farms, or executed them. Most were executed.
It not the precise answer. Actually, in the beginning of some peasants which did not wish to enter collective farms, publicly declared kulak and did not admit to collective farms. Then to it increased the tax until then while they were not ruined. Then them deprived a vote, limited in other rights and confiscated property, as not paid the tax. The majority of kulaks ran in cities as at this time Stalin spent industrialization of the country and workers were required in a plenty. Really, any part from kulaks sent in corrective-labour camp (GULAG) and their part was lost. But the great bulk of kulaks and their families has appeared in cities. Stalin has put forward the slogan: ' the Son is not responsible for the father ', therefore many children and grandsons of kulaks not only have got a job, but also higher education. As children of kulaks differed greater diligence and persistence many have made successful career of them at Stalin. The statement, that executed the majority of kulaks, is excessive exaggeration. But that the agriculture in Russia has been destroyed is a truth.
The Kulaks retaliated to the idea of collectivity. Since the Kulaks were the wealthiest farmers, merging of farms and everything becoming common property put them at a loss since the people they were merging with had less. The Soviet Regime has been against Kulaks from the start, even with Lenin who regarded them as "bloodsuckers". When the Kulaks retaliated by killing livestock and destroying propery, along with direct rebellion by killing Soviet politicians, Stalin rose into conflict with the Kulaks.
To stop them from murdering the poor peasants who worked under these evil capitalist kulaks.
Stalin solved the problem with the Kulaks by invading the country and establishing a connection with the groups' leader, and from that point he was able to have a direct say in whatever activities the Kulaks did.
Stalin considered the Kulaks to be wealthy peasantsThey were formerly wealthy farmers that had owned 24 or more acres, or had employed farm workers. Stalin believed any future insurrection would be led by the Kulaks, thus he proclaimed a policy aimed at "liquidating the Kulaks as a class."
Stalin responded very violently. He executed many Kulaks and soon began mass deportations that carried out through-out the years. Many of the Kulaks died from the results of being deported.
because the kulak had power!
Kulaks
Kulaks
The Kulaks numbered around 8 million and were mostly farmers. These people were fiercely independent and despised the Communists and especially Joseph Stalin! Stalin was wanting to undergo a massive collectivazation program especially in the Ukraine and western Russia-the breadbasket of Russia. The Kulaks didn't want to give up their ancestral home and resisted. Stalin ordered them removed and a majority of these innocent people were murdered and others sent to Siberian gulags! The Kulaks would be the first of many to experience first hand, the wrath of Stalin.
He targeted the Kulaks.
Kulaks
The kulaks were a class of farmers who started out as peasants, but became successful and wealthy, developing their own little system of capitalism. Stalin was not about to allow any sort of capitalism to take root in Russia, so he had them all killed.
A Propaganda campaign was started utilizing eager young Communist activists who spread out among the country folk attempting to shore up the people's support for the Soviet regime. However, their attempts failed. Despite the propaganda, ongoing coercion and threats, the people continued to resist through acts of rebellion and outright sabotage. They burned their own homes rather than surrender them. They took back their property, tools and farm animals from the collectives, harassed and even assassinated local Soviet authorities. This ultimately put them in direct conflict with the power and authority of Joseph Stalin.
The Russian Kulaks were mostly peasant class farm owners. They faced a regime under Lenin & Stalin that at first were radical Bolshevik communists. They saw the Kulaks as a problem because they supported the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime. Later, they refused to sell their crops at the price set by Lenin and his regime. The Kulaks were against abolishing private property. To avert an economic crisis, Lenin began the NEP, or New Economic Policy. For a short time this gave some ground to the Kulaks, but not for long. The NEP was abolished and the collectivization of the Soviet farm system began. Kulaks that resisted were killed. Later with Stalin in sole power of the USSR, he created a program to wipe out the peasant farmer class completely. He hated the Kulaks so much many millions of them were executed.