НАСИЛЬНИЦЬКА КОЛЕКТИВІЗАЦІЯ В ЗАХІДНИХ ОБЛАСТЯХ УРСР У ПІСЛЯВОЄННИЙ ПЕРІОД

Abstract

The article reveals the violent nature of the so-called «socialist transformations» carried out by the Soviet totalitarian system, which were the most clearly manifested in the nationalization of agriculture in the production region. Over the centuries, a single-person farm type of management developed in the western Ukrainian region, and the peasant cherished private ownership of land as the highest value. The purpose of the forced collectivization of the western Ukrainian countryside was to strike a blow at the wealthy and middle-class economy, to socialize them and thereby undermine the basic social base of the national liberation insurgent movement. The peasantry was attracted to the collective farms by methods of economic coercion, intimidation and resettlement from the farms and as a result of other repressive measures. The peculiarity of obtaining agricultural production was that one, being carried out mainly by workers sent from the eastern regions. Due to the fact that the proper material and technical base was not laid for collectivization in its first years, internal tension grew in the village, which, at the same time as the destruction of the traditional system, led to the undermining of agricultural production and the impoverishment of the population. For a long time, the ideas of violent collectivization brought to Ukrainian territory from outside were not accepted and supported by the main mass of rural workers. The establishment of Soviet power in the Western Ukrainian region was carried out by traditional forced command-administrative and repressive-punitive methods already tested in the pre-war period, completely ignoring the local socio-economic and spiritual-cultural specifics, relying on the repressive machine and the military forces support.