![]() ![]() He wanted to continue increasing industrial production and needed a way to feed his burgeoning urban workforce cheaply. One of the greatest challenges Stalin faced in the late 1920s was the need to control agriculture and the peasantry. ![]() The early twentieth century was not easy on the Russian Empire cum Soviet Union. Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine describes how the Soviet regime turned the breadbasket of Europe into an Armageddon where neighbor turned on neighbor, millions were starved to death, and the Communists showed themselves to be priests, crusaders, jailers, and torturers for the Evil One. This was certainly the case of Stalin and what he did to Ukraine. Maslow in Toward a Psychology of Being.Īnd if that hammer is the power of the state, and if the wielder is unconstrained by morality or a worthy goal, then the result is bound to be a Hell on earth for everyone but the wielder. “ It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham H. ![]()
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