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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, Episode 135, the Soviet Union

Part 5, Collectivization in Action.

Last episode covered some of the early attempts at collectivization and the reason that

collectivization was pursued by the Central Committee of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

This episode will focus on what the collectivization actually meant for the people in the countryside

where the collectivization was taking place.

Importantly, collectivization was happening whether the rural peasants wanted it to or not,

and it would have two important outcomes.

The first was widespread famine within

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