The collective farms in the subjugated countries are the Russian control centers of this aspect of life too. A Ukrainian peasant is an individualist. He despises collective economy. He stands for a peasant's private ownership of land. Collectivization of agriculture, therefore, is a thoroughly political and ideological category, not only an economic one.
Collectivization is a leveling of life in order to stifle everything creative in a human being.
Collectivization is a method of national oppression with the help of massive efforts to impose a hostile ideology of life upon a subjugated nation. The French, the English, the Dutch and the Belgians by no means imposed their way of life upon the countries acquired by them. The Russian do the contrary. They force their way of life upon the subjugated nations as a means of dominating them. And thus, for instance, in literature or art socialist-realism is a form of Russian imperialism.