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: Maurício Kakuei Tanaka