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  1. Russian term for a peasant who could afford
  2. to hire labour, and often acted as village
  3. usurer. The kulaks resisted the Soviet
  4. government's policy of collectivization, and
  5. in 1930 they were `liquidated as a class',
  6. with up to 5 million being either killed or
  7. deported to Siberia.
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