dekulakizes
dekulakizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dekulakize.
Meaning of dekulakize
Verb
dekulakize (third-person singular simple present dekulakizes, present participle dekulakizing, simple past and past participle dekulakized)
- 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 dekulakizes
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Questions about dekulakizes
- What is dekulakizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Dekulakizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dekulakize.
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