Mass violence against the country's largest class required the creation of a significant punitive apparatus, a system of camps and special exile, and finally turned terror into the main method of government. Collectivization abruptly and almost immediately destroyed numerous traditional social ties, increased the atomization of society and facilitated ideological manipulation. The arbitrary and merciless pumping of resources from the village made it possible to adopt thoughtless economic plans and squander “easy” funds and lives with impunity.