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To: Sully- who wrote (30779)	2/23/2004 2:02:52 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794102

Hi all---We watched History Channel last night which had a program on Stalin. It was truly frightening, and I urge any who might not have seen it, nor been alive to know why so many Americans and world citizens hated Communinism and Stalin when the news slowly started to leak out about what he had done. It may not be too large a number to say with one swipe of his pen, Stalin killed over 30 MILLION people. With this one pen swipe, he made it law that the peasants and anyone who owned their own piece of land, including ALL the livestock (even down to every pig or chicken), any farm equipment, and the produce or grain of the small farm now belonged to the "Collective"..... In effect, Stalin made these citizens slaves who worked for the greater 'collective'. If ANY people resisted, they and their families were either killed outright, or sent to gulags/prisons ..... This happened not hundreds of years ago, but rather, less than 75 years ago. I became chilled when I realized there was a strong analogy today.........those who think they have the right to take the money/time/effort of any they deem to be "rich" should review Stalin's history. 8888888888888888888 A bit of further reference if any are interested.... www.historychannel.com/ Russia In the 20th cent. the Russian Revolution added a new dimension to agrarian reform-the socialization of agriculture (i.e., the collective ownership of all land partly through state farming, but mainly through collective farming under state control) as a prerequisite for attaining communism. Driven in part by the peasant's desire for land, Lenin, shortly after assuming power, decreed (1917) all land as state property. Landed estates were seized by peasants, resulting in approximately 25 million peasant holdings. His government's promotion of voluntary collectivization was ineffective, however, and after 1929 Stalin forced collectivization at an estimated cost of ten million lives. After World War II, the Eastern European nations under Communist rule implemented agrarian reforms following the Soviet model. Since the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe (1989-90) and the disintegration of the Soviet Union (1991) there has been movement, sometimes successful, sometimes fitful, toward privatization of agriculture in the former republics of the USSR.