Meaning of dekulakise | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of dekulakize.

UK, alt-of, alternative

Examples

“[W]hen, in their eagerness to achieve⟳ a higher percentage of collectivisation, they began to employ⟳ force⟳ against the middle peasants, to deprive them of the right to vote⟳, by "dekulakising" and expropriating them, the united front with the middle peasants began to be undermined and the kulak obtained the opportunity, as is quite clear, to make⟳ fresh attempts to recover⟳ his position.”

“[page 122] Ivan ‘dekulakises’ a peasant’s pig, and delivers it to the police. […] [page 124] [A]ll this [rotting] meat had originated with pigs ‘dekulakised’ from the peasants, and slaughtered by the Activists. About a month after this fragrant event, half of the local Activists were themselves slaughtered by the peasants and the remainder fled.”

“[T]he Belorussian novelist Vasil’ Bykov, following the award of the Lenin prize for his novel Znak bedy, explained that in Belorussia ‘we did not have⟳ any kulaks generally, but they required us to dekulakise’.”

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