- Collectivisation caused backlash and resisistance
- Peasants ate their own animals and fought those that enforced propaganda relating to socialist ideology
- Peasants did not want collectivisation as it meant losing their freedom
- A famine in 1932 killed 7 million people on estimate
Religion, Arts, Culture
- The government promoted atheism (not having any religion) through education, unfair laws, propaganda and a terror campaign
- Stalin believed religion was a barrier to creating an equal society
- There were less than 500 churches in 1939 from an initial 54K in 1917
- Monks and nuns were killed
- People still saw themselves as religious
- Artists that were perceived to portray a message that Stalin didn't agree with were oppressed
- Only art that enforced and praise Stalin's ideologies were allowed
- Books were censored and authors were banned
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