Kulak

Definitions

1. A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
   historical
2. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind⟳ for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.”

“We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished.”

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