kulak

• “To try to persuade some of them to come back would make economic sense, but hardly accords with the prevailing ideology, which inveighs against a "kulak" or "comprador" class, be it black or white.”

  Inside Angola

• “In the 1920s and 30s, sheeplike Western travelers in Stalinist Russia had accepted its category of "kulak," or rich peasant, to describe a peasant who owned a pig or a cow and was therefore a class enemy deserving the supreme penalty.”

  City Journal

• “Taxation collected from the profitable private light industries and kulak run farms funded the state sponsored growth of heavy industry.”

  Matthew Yglesias » A Reform Cabinet for Nigeria

• “Like Ayers, who believed that socialism could be imposed on America with no more than 25% of the kulak types being exterminated.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History

• “For example, my own family consists of a former kulak, a member of intelligentsia, gulag prisoner, a navy officer, and a communist state official.”

  Estonian Symbolism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'

• “Going on their air on a regular basis and lending your name and reputation to their ideological razzle-dazzle is like agreeing to be the regular kulak guest columnist at Pravda in 1929.”

  The Guardian: Juan Williams, axed

• “The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed.”

  Roger’s Rules » How Stupid Do They Think We Are?

• “Kalashnikov, had been declared a kulak, and exiled as an enemy of the people, when the sergeant was an eleven-year-old boy.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Gun

• “A group of men drove farm animals seized from several kulak families into their yard and hacked the animals to death with axes.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Gun

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