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Dying peasants harvested the spring crops under watchtowers.
As Lemkin knew, terror followed famine: peasants who survived hunger and the Gulag became Stalin’s next victims.
The Great Terror of 1937-1938 began with a shooting campaign – directed chiefly against peasants – that claimed 386,798 lives across the Soviet Union, a disproportionate number of them in Ukraine.
Another five million starved in the famine of 1930-1933, of whom 3.3 million were Ukrainians who died as a result of a deliberate policy related to their nationality or status as relatively prosperous peasants known as kulaks.
In the process, it is managing the singular feat of glorifying Somali peasants while starving them to death, and blowing up Somali youth hoping to secure an education abroad.
After winning a bilingual education system in the late 1980's and securing land titles for many peasants in 1992, CONAIE expanded its agenda.
In contrast, over the same period, the cumulative increase was 1.6 times for urban residents’ per capita disposable income and 1.2 times for rural peasants’ per capita income.
In his famous speech on India’s “tryst with destiny,” Nehru promised Indians that his government would seek to “bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease;… to ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.”
In the late 1970’s, Chinese peasants had long since lost their rights to own their land, owing to collectivization and the establishment of the People’s Commune.
Zhao, however, was the first to advocate giving autonomy back to the peasants and so initiated the first pilot tests to abolish the People’s Commune.
Average annual output per capita is about $900, and incomes among the peasants who make up most of its rural population of 26 million are less than $250.
Huge investments have strengthened the People’s Armed Police (PAP), a large anti-riot paramilitary force whose specialty is the quick suppression of anti-government protests by disgruntled industrial workers, peasants, and urban residents.
Worse, without support from this strategic group, other social groups, such as workers and peasants, have become politically marginalized and rudderless.
Khmer Rouge soldiers beat her father to death, and she remembers being shot at for sport by communist cadres as she and dozens of other peasants scuttled up a mountainside.
Two distinct quandaries confront China’s leaders: the first centers on the growing demands and dissatisfactions of Chinese society – from peasants and students to white-collar workers and pensioners; the second consists in the country’s conduct of foreign policy.
The same is true of the Party's relationship with the peasants, who provided Mao Zedong with the soldiers and supplies he needed in battles that lasted decades.
But Mao decided to take back the land from the peasants even before it was given to them.
"The serious problem is the education of the peasants," he said.
The "representatives" of the peasants are the new landlords.
Unlike workers or peasants, students include people from all levels of society, so whatever mobilizes them represents society's focus at that time.
What will become of several hundred million rural peasants and jobless workers in sunset industries?
The CCP no longer represents workers and peasants, but it can represent the "majority of the people," including "red" capitalists.
Twenty-five years ago, China had a more egalitarian society than Sweden; today there is vast inequality between city and countryside, between the western provinces and those bordering the Pacific ocean, and within cities, which attract a constant flow of former peasants looking for jobs.
This includes implementing social and economic programs aimed at reducing poverty and creating jobs, defending the victims of the conflict, ensuring that stolen land is returned to displaced peasants, and creating more equitable conditions throughout the country.
The peasants in Guerrero cultivate amapola for the cartels, not for their own livelihood.
From big issues - say, the closure of the Gdansk shipyards - to small ones - say, when the peasants in my village object to a new road because the tumult may kill their pigs - the country is awash in impromptu protest politics.
As long as one was not strong enough to dominate the other, the war continued, causing horrendous suffering among innocent peasants and city dwellers.
The world goes on, the peasants continue plowing their fields, getting on with their lives.
Appalled at the circumstances of the Japanese people, who were largely peasants, the emperor decided to suspend taxation.
But a glimpse from the same mountain revealed steady plumes of smoke rising from the peasants’ huts.
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