Sebu NZ
Sebu NZ: I currently attend ASP (American School of Paris). Its a great school.
As for the kulaks, yes they were the most wealthy farmers in Russia. Under regular communism, farmers found little need to work extremely hard, as they would have to give all their surplus goods (90% I believe) to the government. This basically means that if one hard working farmer makes 10 tons of wheat, 9 would be taken away (I am taking this from a history book). But if a lazy ass farmer would only make 1 ton of wheat, he would get to keep that at no loss. Under Lenin's NEP (New Economic Policy), farmers had to give 50% of their goods to the government, than they had to sell the rest of the surplus for cas, which in turn they could use to buy things. Therefore, the hardworking farmer would make 10 tons of wheat, give 5 to the government, and sell 4 to the marketplace, and be allowed to keep the 1 ton they have left. Whereas the lazy farmer would make 1 ton of wheat, give 1/2 to the government, and would only have HALF as much as the hardworking farmer to eat. Therefore the system rewarded hardworking and capitalism. Many communists were horrified at this preposition, even though it was only a temporary preposition. Stalin ended it as soon as he took office, and ordered the mass genocies of those hardworking farmes (who had recently become kulaks, as they now had more money to purchase better materials, some farm laborers etc.)
You can actually compare this to China. Mao Zhe Dong order the mass killing of thousands of landlords, and the courts that directed the trial were run by peasants themselves! Needless to say, the land owners always lost.
It proves again that there is never a communist government. It alwys begins nice and fluffy, but ends up as an opperssive regime.