Property Seizures as Total Control
Soviet and Chinese regimes confiscated everything from homes to family heirlooms under “collectivization.” This led directly to the Holodomor famine in Ukraine and mass starvation in China during the Great Leap Forward. The state simply replaced capitalists as oppressors. Regular people lost not just wealth but basic possessions needed for survival. Stalin’s dekulakization campaign exemplified this distortion, targeting even moderately successful farmers and confiscating their tools and food reserves, causing millions of deaths.
