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When [[Joseph Stalin]] rose to power, kulaks resisted some of his measures of [[collectivization]].  Stalin responded with a brutality of horrific proportions, known as "Dekulakization".  On 27 [[December]], 1929 he announced the ''"liquidation of the kulaks as class"''. The purpose of this was to combat suppossed "[[Counter Revolution|counter revolutionaries]]", but in reality it served to enable the advance of collectivization.  The kulaks and their families had all of their property confiscated by the state.  Stalin then either executed, put in labor camps, or deported them to [[Siberia]] or central Asia.  It is unclear how many died to to the Soviet policies of dekulakization and collectivization, but most estimates place the death toll around 15 million.  Dekulakization was also a factor in the [[Holodomor|man-made famine]] ''(Holodomor)'' in Soviet controlled [[Ukraine]], which claimed around 7 million lives.  In 1934, the [[Communist Party]] justified their actions with the statement "''Not one of them'' [Kulaks] ''was guilty of anything; but they belonged to a class that was guilty of everything''".  

When [[Joseph Stalin]] rose to power, kulaks resisted some of his measures of [[collectivization]].  Stalin responded with a brutality of horrific proportions, known as "Dekulakization".  On 27 [[December]], 1929 he announced the ''"liquidation of the kulaks as class"''. The purpose of this was to combat suppossed "[[Counter Revolution|counter revolutionaries]]", but in reality it served to enable the advance of collectivization.  The kulaks and their families had all of their property confiscated by the state.  Stalin then either executed, put in labor camps, or deported them to [[Siberia]] or central Asia.  It is unclear how many died to to the Soviet policies of dekulakization and collectivization, but most estimates place the death toll around 15 million.  Dekulakization was also a factor in the [[Holodomor|man-made famine]] ''(Holodomor)'' in Soviet controlled [[Ukraine]], which claimed around 7 million lives. <ref> John Heidenrich, ''How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen'' (2001): 20 million, including [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Stalin  Kulaks: 7 million], [[Gulag]]: 12 million,  [[Great Purge]]: 1.2 million (minus 50,000 survivors).</ref> In 1934, the [[Communist Party]] justified their actions with the statement "''Not one of them'' [Kulaks] ''was guilty of anything; but they belonged to a class that was guilty of everything''".  

"KULAK" was the code name given by the [[KGB]] in [[Venona cables]] to U.S. [[Republican party]] nominee [[Thomas Dewey]] who ran against incumbant Democratic [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] for President in 1944. <ref>Venona 1433 - 1435 New York to Moscow, 10 October 1944, [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/10_Oct_1944_R3_m3_p1.gif p.1]

"KULAK" was the code name given by the [[KGB]] in [[Venona cables]] to U.S. [[Republican party]] nominee [[Thomas Dewey]] who ran against incumbant Democratic [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] for President in 1944. <ref>Venona 1433 - 1435 New York to Moscow, 10 October 1944, [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/10_Oct_1944_R3_m3_p1.gif p.1]