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knew that the overwhelming majority of the peasants deeply resented the
collective farms. In this matterhoweverit was far more dif?cult to retreat.
Even if the creators of the system had been willing to sacri?ce the collective
farmswhich is questionablesuch a move in the short run would have led
to enormous confusion. The Soviet leadersgood politicians that they were
well understood this weakness in their position. They braced themselves for
an attackbecause they assumed that the enemy would exploit their weak-
ness. But the attack never came; for the Germansinstead of identifying
themselves with the aspirations of the peasantsdecided to exploit the col-
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lective farms for their own purposes. Theytoofound it easier to compel
the collectives to provide food than to force individual peasants. Partisan
propaganda took advantage of the failure of the Germans. The partisans
encouraged the belief that after the victorious conclusion of the war the
farms would be dissolved. It is impossible to establish to what extent this
aspect of partisan propaganda was centrally planned. Most likely the parti-
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