Podkulachnik ( , literally : " Person under the kulaks " ) was a political label used in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s to brand people considered traitors to the Soviet Government . Podkulachnik is considered by many to be a Stalinist neologism from the late 1920s . After the Russian Revolution , the Kulaks - relatively affluent and well-endowed peasants - were persecuted by the Soviet Government as class enemies of the poor , and hence enemies of the Revolution itself
were persecuted by the Soviet Government
Dekulakization
Podkulachnik