1930: Soviet Union, height of collectivization.
Stalin's plan: Eliminate private farming. All agriculture becomes state-controlled.
The stated goal: Efficiency and equality.
The actual goal: Total food control.
Private livestock ownership is banned first. Owning a cow makes you a kulak. Kulaks are class enemies. Class enemies are executed or sent to gulags.
Within 3 years:
- Cattle population drops 60%
- Pig population drops 55%
- Sheep/goat population drops 65%
Peasants who'd been feeding themselves with household livestock are now dependent on state grain rations.
The famine follows immediately. Not from crop failure. From deliberate grain confiscation and livestock elimination.
4-7 million dead in Ukraine alone. Millions more across the Soviet Union.
But here's the part they don't teach: The Communist Party elite never stopped eating meat.
Special stores called "Beryozka" served party members only. Stocked with beef, pork, chicken, dairy, fresh vegetables.
The peasants starved on grain rations while watching party officials eat better than they'd ever eaten.
This created the perfect population control mechanism:
- Eliminate independent food production
- Create dependency on state rations
- Control who gets adequate food based on compliance
- Use hunger as a weapon against dissent
Compliant workers got better rations. Critics got less.
The threat of starvation was more effective than secret police.
The same pattern repeated in every communist state:
China: Great Leap Forward kills 45 million. Party elite dines on duck and pork in Beijing while peasants eat tree bark.
Cambodia: Khmer Rouge executes anyone owning livestock. Grain rations for workers. Meat for party members.
North Korea: Ongoing starvation for citizens. Kim family eats imported Japanese beef and Swiss cheese.
Venezuela: Cattle ranches nationalized. Production collapses. Government officials eat meat. Citizens get rice rations.
The collectivization is never about equality. It's about control.
Independent protein production makes you ungovernable. You can feed yourself without state permission.
Grain dependency makes you compliant. You eat what they give you. You work to earn food access. You don't rebel because hungry people don't fight.
"Seize the means of production" always starts by seizing independent food production.
And independent food production has always meant livestock.
The 20th century proved it: Control the meat supply, control the population. Starve dissenters. Feed loyalists.
The same formula the Pharaohs used 5,000 years ago.
Just more efficient with modern agriculture and state control.
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