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Map of Ukraine during genocide

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the letter Stalin sent to kagnovich led to him passing a law "on the protection of the property of the state enterprises,collective farms, and cooperatives and the strengthening of public ownership" which went into force with its publication Pravda

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Stalin blamed  "the main shortcoming" on the "organizational lapses" of the Commissariat of Agriculture and outlined needed changes

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He ordered an end to sabotage.Stalin wrote to Lazar Kaganovich, by then the third most important man in the party after Stalin and Molotov and complained about thefts in the countryside by "dekulakized persons and other antisocial elements".

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a letter to Kaganovich and Molotov on behalf of the Politburo, Stalin acknowledged reports of "impoverishment and famine" but took no responsibility,nor did he admit that quotas were too high. this is stage 10 of a genocide "denial"

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The politburo discussed calls for help from Communist leaders in Ukraine and agreed to send them unused oat seed, corn, and grain

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shortages began to spead and the state introduced a rationing system for essential food and commodities. the exclusion from the provisioning system of the peasantry and those considered disenfranchised meant that 80 percent of the country had to fend for themselves

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OGPU Estimated that close to 500,000, or nearly 30 percent of these people.were dead or had run away, this disruption of normal life had fatal consequences for vast numbers of innocents

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Stalin's regime carried out a dekulakization program in two waves,which together deported 1.8 million accused of being kulak or "kulak-like" (podkulacknik).many were dent to the Gulag system or exiled to "special settlements"