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- Anne Applebaum. The Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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Stalin’s workers’ paradise: CANNIBAL ISLAND

One of the most horrendous abuses of the Stalinist era was the mass deportation of 6,700 prisoners to what became known as “Cannibal Island”. This was a small island called Nazino in the Ob River in western Siberia (now the Tomsk Oblast). The island was 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) long and 600 meters (660 yards) wide and had no possibility of feeding the thousands of new residents. The only thing…

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“To the elections!!”

“For collectivization!”

“For the harvest”

Soviet poster by V. N. Kostianitsyn, 1928-1930.

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Passer par la fenêtre : Je laisse mes inspirations seules, En proie à l'érosion. Parmi toutes les catharsis veules, La création est destruction. Je discerne la cité et ses façades Où l'exploité subit l'erreur. Cette machine pour calmer les fades Mystifiant toutes les horreurs. Par la culture vient le communautarisme. Par l'intelligence vient l'élitisme. Par la force, vient l'égotisme Par le travail, vient le libéralisme. Je prends toutes les erreurs Dans mon sillage. Je collectivise les ailleurs ; Tous la même cage. Clément Dugast (nocto)

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Collectivisation was voluntary and thus quite different from the forced “collectivisation" presided over by Stalin in Russia. Usually a meeting was called in the village, most collectives were centred on a particular village, and all present would agree to pool together whatever land, tools and animals they had. This would be added to what had already been taken from the big landowners. The land was divided into rational units and groups of workers were assigned to work them. Each group had its delegate who represented their views at meetings of the collective. A management committee was also elected and was responsible for the overall running of the collective. They would look after the buying of materials, exchanges with other areas, distributing the produce and necessary public works such as the building of schools. Each collective held regular general meetings of all its participants. If you didn’t want to join the collective you were given some land but only as much as you could work yourself. You were not allowed to employ workers. Not only production was affected, distribution was on the basis of what people needed. In many areas money was abolished. People come to the collective store (often churches which had been turned into warehouses) and got what was available. If there were shortages rationing would be introduced to ensure that everyone got their fair share. But it was usually the case that increased production under the new system eliminated shortages.

Workers Solidarity Movement, The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action

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