On Jan. 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a resolution ‘On measures for the liquidation of kulak property’, which launched widespread repressions against peasants and small landowners, a process known as ‘dekulakization’.
RFE/RL: How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class
A woman walks past busts of Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin and a huge state emblem of the USSR at the Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow on June 9, 2020.