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|]@v!|}:•} !$ d@ 133$t 4 3v@ yaa asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

Can someone explain what russia was like before Stalin and his forced famine?

Could you explain what was happening before this such as explaining

the historical event (such as ukraine wanting independence)

the political situation (Russia's Government)

and the socio cultural situation (Resisting peasants of ukraine)?

Thanks and if you dont have an answer can you at least give me a source or website where I can find info on this. 10 Points.

Update:

Thanks blant but was Ukraine already independent or where they under control of the Soviet Union

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago
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    Before Stalin was the butcher Lenin. Lenin and his Bolsheviks murdered millions of Russians through starvation because they refused to submit to his control. It was customary for Lenin to order the military into farms of people (even with elderly and children) and steal or destroy their food if they disagreed with his communist policies. Estimates vary between 5 million to 9 million Russians died because of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Lenin also used stolen food from Russian farmers to feed his military who forced communism on the rest of Russia.

    Source(s): http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#RCW http://markhumphrys.com/soviet.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAObChFp0ws
  • ammianus
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The Soviet Union (which had always included the Ukraine),was a nasty Communist dictatorship well before Stalin and his Collectivization programme.

    Lenin and the Cheka saw to that.

  • ?
    8 years ago

    I'm Ukrainian and before Stalin there was a man called Leninhe formed Soviet Union he was a good man before Lenin there was revolution and king times like there still was a king you know haha

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