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kulack

kulack is the alternative form of kulak.

Meaning of kulak

Noun

kulak (plural kulaks or kulaki)

  1. (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
    • The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    kurkul

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Forms of kulack

pluralkulacks

Questions about kulack

What is kulack the alternative form of?
Kulack is the alternative form of kulak.

Words near kulack in the dictionary

  1. Kukës
  2. kula
  3. Kula Norinska
  4. Kulaal
  5. Kulachandra
  6. kulack
  7. kulacks
  8. Kulaga
  9. Kulagas
  10. Kulah
  11. Kulahs

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