By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. 

Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, churches destroyed, families deported, and the proud independence of Ukraine’s farmers was crushed beneath the machinery of collectivisation.

Through forced labor, quotas, and terror, millions were driven from their homes as the Soviet dream turned into a nightmare. Stalin’s campaign to “liquidate the kulaks as a class” would not only shatter rural life, it would lay the foundations for the famine to come.

Join Joseph Parkinson as he tells the story of Stalin’s collectivisation, the destruction of Ukraine’s villages, and the ideological madness that reshaped an entire nation.

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