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dekulakized

dekulakized is the simple past and past participle of dekulakize.

Meaning of dekulakize

Verb

dekulakize (third-person singular simple present dekulakizes, present participle dekulakizing, simple past and past participle dekulakized)

  1. (historical, transitive) Usually with reference to the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess a kulak (that is, a prosperous peasant) of his or her property and/or rights.
    • [W]hen, in their eagerness to achieve a higher percentage of collectivisation, they began to employ force against the middle peasants, to deprive them of the right to vote, by "dekulakising" and expropriating them, the united front with the middle peasants began to be undermined and the kulak...1930, J[oseph] Stalin, “Collective Farms”, in International Press Correspondence, volume 10, Berlin: Richard Neumann, →OCLC, page 341, column 2

Forms of dekulakized

alternative formdekulakised

Questions about dekulakized

What is dekulakized the simple past and past participle of?
Dekulakized is the simple past and past participle of dekulakize.

Words near dekulakized in the dictionary

  1. dekulakises
  2. dekulakising
  3. dekulakization
  4. dekulakizations
  5. dekulakize
  6. dekulakized
  7. dekulakizes
  8. dekulakizing
  9. DekuMeli
  10. DekuMomo
  11. del

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