Tea party as the new ‘kulaks’
By Jack Cashill, WorldNetDaily
The oddball media slander of the tea party, now routine, shows more than a little calculation along a rather perilous historical line.
In the 1920s, in advance of the collectivization of private farms, Soviet leadership stigmatized as “class enemies” a productive set of landowners known as “kulaks.” The word was derived from the Russian for “fist” and extended to mean “tight-fisted.”
In the beginning, the Soviets attempted to turn peasant farmers against the kulaks by denouncing them, in Mr. Lenin’s illiberal words, as “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine.”
As the collectivization progressed, and even the peasantry resisted its mounting horrors, the Soviets defined “kulak” down to mean any farmer who would hide an ear of corn lest his family starve to death.
Before he was through, Stalin and his progressive pals killed off at least 5 million of these people either though starvation, ruthless deportation or outright murder.
