Stalin’s terror produced famine and depopulation, not economic progress
Evidence
The best documented resuit of dekulakization, collectivization, and the Great Purge was neither progress nor rapid industrialization but famine, chaotic conditions in the production of food, and depopulation. The consequences have been a perpetual crisis in agriculture, an interruption of population growth, and the failure to develop and colonize the Siberian hinterland. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 47
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Directly contradicts modernization defenses of Stalinism; connects to the broader Arendtian argument that terror is not a high price for progress but its negation.
Related
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