The Holodomors In Stalin's Law To Help The Kulaks
The Holodomor is a definitive example of collectivism values as formerly wealthy farmers known to the Communists as Kulaks, were to be “liquidated” as a class according to Stalin’s policies. This is where the out-of-group homogeneity effect comes in as Stalin and his regime saw these members as all alike and considered “enemies of the people” (Waller, 2007). Stalin’s law forbade helping the Kulaks as they were left with nothing and were brought to settlements located in the wilderness. Soviet mines and large industrialized organizations took these members including unmarried girls and grown men to become their personal slave-workers (The History Place, 2000). The farmers who rejected being a part of this new collective structure ended up being