During [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s [[NEP]], kulaks in the Ukraine remained wealthy. But when [[Joseph Stalin]] rose to power, they resisted some of his measures. Stalin responded with a brutality of horrific proportions. Stalin either executed or shipped to labor camps nearly 2 million kulaks in the 1930s, and there was mass starvation in the Ukraine of perhaps 20 million people. | During [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s [[NEP]], kulaks in the Ukraine remained wealthy. But when [[Joseph Stalin]] rose to power, they resisted some of his measures. Stalin responded with a brutality of horrific proportions. Stalin either executed or shipped to labor camps nearly 2 million kulaks in the 1930s, and there was mass starvation in the Ukraine of perhaps 20 million people. |