The response from the peasants
to all of this was riots and revolts.
Again, the revolts were particularly bad
because the peasants could see
that after their grain was seized
and brutally confiscated from them,
it was sitting there rotting away
in the railway wagons, in churches,
in schools, and so forth,
for lack of a better storage space.
After the revolts, the state responded
with use of tanks and bayonets,
and collectivization, which was often
used as a punitive measure
or to ensure that the peasants were
unable to destroy or hoard the food
because they were collectivized
although then the collective farms
also did engage in hoarding.
It was not so much
that the state was insistent
upon spreading collectivization
fast across the country
as it was a response
to the problem of trying to ensure
procurement of the grain.
Transcriber: Michel Smits
Reviewer: MaurĂcio Kakuei Tanaka