Where have the Russian villages disappeared? / Editorial Office

Fields overgrown with weeds and wastelands on the site of former villages are a typical picture for our middle strip.

At the same time, at the beginning of the twentieth century, 85% of the inhabitants of Russia were peasants. Where did this civilization disappear, why so quickly?

And why don’t most of us know our ancestry beyond our great-grandfathers?

In this video we will talk about dekulakization — the Russian catastrophe, the consequences of which we, without realizing it, feel for ourselves every day.

Content:
00:00 Where have the Russian villages disappeared?
03:25 Stories of the dispossessed
07:48 Who are the kulaks?
09:28 How did the peasants live in tsarist Russia and after the revolution?
14:18 Why did Stalin need collectivization?
20:31 Was the Soviet government afraid of the peasants?
26:00 Why didn't the peasants want to go to the collective farms?
31:03 Who and how determined whom to repress?
36:19 How did the kulaks live in exile?
53:39 Did Stalin know about the "local excesses"?
55:48 How did the peasants resist collectivization?
1:01:13 Why are modern families still afraid to talk about dekulakization?
1:06:42 How did Yuri Shevchuk find out that his grandfather had been dispossessed?
1:07:53 The only Russian Centre for Memory of the dispossessed
1:10:47 Mass famine
1:15:00 How many victims of collectivization were there?
1:16:51 How did people live on collective farms at that time?
1:20:23 Why didn't Khrushchev and Brezhnev dissolve the collective farms?
1:26:10 Instead of peasants there are farmers, instead of collective farms there are agricultural holdings
1:31:10 About the attitude to Stalin
1:35:14 How would we live if there was no dekulakization?