Yagoda and Berman 's plan was based on the experience of deporting 2,000,000 kulaks ( wealthier land owning peasants ) and other agricultural workers to the same areas that had occurred in the previous three years as part of the Dekulakization policy . However , unlike the previous plan , resources available to support the new plan were severely limited by the ongoing famine in the Soviet Union . Despite this , the new plan was approved by the Soviet Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR on 11 March 1933 . Shortly after the plan 's approval , the number of prospective deportees was reduced to 1,000,000 deportees
Dekulakization
Dekulakization
Nazino affair