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The response from the peasants 
to all of this was riots and revolts.

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Again, the revolts were particularly bad
because the peasants could see

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that after their grain was seized 
and brutally confiscated from them,

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it was sitting there rotting away

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in the railway wagons, in churches,
in schools, and so forth,

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for lack of a better storage space.

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After the revolts, the state responded
with use of tanks and bayonets,

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and collectivization, which was often 
used as a punitive measure

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or to ensure that the peasants were
unable to destroy or hoard the food

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because they were collectivized

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although then the collective farms
also did engage in hoarding.

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It was not so much
that the state was insistent

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upon spreading collectivization 
fast across the country

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as it was a response

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to the problem of trying to ensure
procurement of the grain.

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Transcriber: Michel Smits
Reviewer: Maurício Kakuei Tanaka