Original sentence: Contemporary historians estimate that between four and six million people died, either of starvation or in labor camps, in the move to collectivise farms.It also led to the dismantling of the peasant class, and its replacement by collectivised agriculture left a legacy of chronic agricultural under-production which the Soviet regime never fully overcame.Molotov carried out Stalin's line of using a combination of force and propaganda to crush peasant resistance to collectivisation, including the deportation of millions of kulaks (peasants with property) to labor camps.Stalin frequently required him and other Politburo members to sign the death warrants of prominent purge victims, and Molotov always did so without question.The rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany gave the development of a modern armaments industry great urgency, and Molotov and the commissar of industry, Lazar Kaganovich, were primarily responsible for guiding this success.This purge acquired momentum through 1935 and 1936 and culminated in 1937-38 in the Moscow Trials, in which most of the pre-Stalin Bolshevik leaders were convicted on usually fabricated charges of treason and espionage, and millions of other Russians were deported to labor camps
Edited sentence: Contemporary historians estimate that between four and six million people died, either of starvation or in labour camps, in the move to collectivise farms.It also led to the dismantling of the peasant class and its replacement by collectivised agriculture left a legacy of chronic agricultural under-production which the Soviet regime never fully overcame.Molotov carried out Stalin's line of using a combination of force and propaganda to crush peasant resistance to collectivisation, including the deportation of millions of kulaks (peasants with property) to labour camps.Stalin frequently required him and other Politburo members to sign the death warrants of prominent purge victims and Molotov always did so without question.The rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany gave the development of a modern armaments industry great urgency and Molotov and the commissar of industry, Lazar Kaganovich, were primarily responsible for guiding this success.This purge acquired momentum through 1935 and 1936 and culminated in 1937-38 in the Moscow Trials, in which most of the pre-Stalin Bolshevik leaders were convicted on usually fabricated charges of treason and espionage, and millions of other Russians were deported to labour camps