Joseph Stalin is known as “one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history” (bbc.co.uk). Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party, giving him the control he sought (bbc.co.uk). Shortly after, he was granted dictatorship of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin (historyplace.com). Many people didn't like the way Stalin ruled. People wanted their own independence from Stalin and he didn't take it very well. In 1929, Stalin believed that many scholars, scientists, religious leaders, etc. Ukrainians were planning a riot against him. Without even being heard during a trial, they were killed or immediately deported to prison camps (blogspot.com). The beginning of the genocide began with the classification of civilization. Stalin classified people into different groups due to collective farming. Stalin wanted to consolidate the farms into one large farm. Farmers ended up losing their farms and all their belongings that were there as well. Stalin believed that an uprising could take place in the future if he had not gotten rid of the Kulaks. He thought he needed to take more control over them, so he confiscated all of their belongings and soon they found themselves homeless. As the Kulaks disagreed with Stalin, he began to symbolize them into their own group. The depiction of the Kulaks began because Stalin knew he had to separate the Kulaks from everyone else because they had disobeyed the orders given to them. He gave them another name to separate the Kulaks from the rest of the world. He decided to call them “enemies of the people” (blogspot.com). This way people would know who was considered traitors to Stal...... middle of paper ...... ugh they don't feel like what they did was genocide , in many countries such as the United States, Canada, Italy, Peru, Poland, Australia and many others recognize that Stalin was the leader of the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 and consider it like a genocide. On November 28, 2006, Parliament passed a law declaring that the famine in Ukraine was in fact a genocide. It is now against the law to deny anything that happened during that year (unitedhumanrights.org). Works Cited: BBC News. BBC and Web. January 14, 2014. “Endocide.” : Stalin's forced starvation. [1932. Np, May 10, 2007. Web. January 16, 2014. Krushelnycky, Askold. “Ukrainian famine”. Ukrainian famine. NP, 2003. Web. January 17, 2014. “The History Place – Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Starvation 1932-33.” » TheHistory Place - Genocide in the 20th century: Stalin's forced famine 1932-33. NP, 2000. Web. January 13. 2014.