During the First Five-Year Plan, party members enforcing Stalin´s orders were repeatedly met with gunfire, riots and mass protests. Stalin used Kulaks, the wealthy peasants, as a scapegoat, by blaming them for the protests (Zuelkhe, 63). The Kulaks dominated the pricing of the agricultural products in the Soviet Union, which was a significant concern for the newly found Communist State. In 1929, Stalin announced the Dekulakization process as “the liquidation of the Kulaks as a class”. This practice became one of the deadliest occurrences in the Soviet history. Dekulakization was to be achieved by sending the Kulaks to Gulags, which were labor camps located all around the Soviet Union. Between 1927 and 1929, the amount of Kulaks in the peasant
