Stalin caused a manmade famine on the people and sent the Red Soldiers to size the harvest from the Kulaks (peasants who owned their own land). Stalin’ s goal was to starve the Ukrainians into submission and wipe out private property while feeding the hungry people who lived in the cities. Some people are convinced the famine targeted Ukrainians as an ethnic group and becoming genocide. While others believe that Stalin set out to destroy the private landowner as a social class and suggested the Soviet Union wanted to pay for its rapid industrialization with grain export of starving millions of its own people.
