Wow, of all people, I expected Drace to deny any wrongdoing.
My cousin got on my account and played a joke, lol. That wasn't me.
He especially hated the "kulaks" or the wealthy land-owning peasants in Ukraine.
Sure, to make collectivization work the liquidation of the kulaks as a class had to take place.
Interestingly though, the kulaks played a role in the famine.
As retaliation to the collectivization method, the kulaks refused to pick their crop and dealt a blow to the agriculture.
`Their [kulak] opposition took the initial form of slaughtering their cattle and horses in preference to having them collectivized. The result was a grievous blow to Soviet agriculture, for most of the cattle and horses were owned by the kulaks. Between 1928 and 1933 the number of horses in the USSR declined from almost 30,000,000 to less than 15,000,000; of horned cattle from 70,000,000 (including 31,000,0000 cows) to 38,000,000 (including 20,000,000 cows); of sheep and goats from 147,000,000 to 50,000,000; and of hogs from 20,000,000 to 12,000,000. Soviet rural economy had not recovered from this staggering loss by 1941.
They even murdered the local officials.
Other causes of the famine were drought, a typhoid epidemic that hit Ukraine at the time, and lastly the disorder left by the introduction of the collectivized farms.
Also, the only sources that will give you over 5 million dead come mostly Ukrainian Nationalists and Nazis, and idiots like Conquest.
Estimates done by professional journalists have the number around 1-2 million.