V. Ovsiienko (human rights activist in Kharkiv)

Sir Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin:

“...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?”

Stalin:

“ - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.”

“Ukrainians are an ethos, with their profound religiosity, individualism, tradition of private property, and devotion to their plots of land, were not suited to the construction of communism, and this fact was noted by the high-ranking Soviet officials.”