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Famine in Soviet Ukraine 3 September 1933 SECRET TO THE CHAIRMEN OF REPUBLIC AND
TERRITORIAL (REGIONAL) CONTROL COMMISSIONS AND WORKERS'-PEASANTS'
INSPECTORATES (KK/RKI) Reports of new tactics practiced
by the kulaks involving the organization of hunger protests in certain places
in the North Caucasus, the Ukraine, and the Lower Volga have reached the
Central Control Commission from local Control Commissions and
Workers'-Peasants' Inspectorates. While reports from certain
localities of individual incidents of hunger among the peasants have been
verified, cases of feigning hunger and starvation have been noted in spite of
hidden and buried reserves of food provisions. This represents a new maneuver
on the part of the kulaks in their campaign to undermine the gathering of
seeds and spring sowing. The Central Control Commission of
the VKP(b) [Communist Party] proposes: 1) That each report of cases of
hunger among the kolkhoz [collective farm] members be investigated and that,
where a case of feigning hunger is brought to light, the perpetrators are to
be considered counterrevolutionary elements, and that necessary measures be
taken against them. Decisive measures are to be taken
against the organizers of such protests. In addition, it is necessary that
this maneuver on the part of the class enemy be exposed in the presence of
the members of a given kolkhoz. 2) That, at the same time, a
warning be issued against a possible bureaucratic attitude, here and there,
to a real absence of food provisions in certain kolkhozy
of certain districts suffering from harvest failure, and that help should be
organized to provide foodstuffs from available territorial reserves to kolkhozy and kolkhoz members who are in real need. |
