by the pressures from forced grain requisitioning led to mass famine. Millions perished in hunger as the state dispassionately extracted the last bit of grains produced by the peasants. To get a sense of the extent of the disaster, we take a description from Koba the dread: "Mothers looked at their children and screamed in fear. They screamed as if a snake had crept into their house. And this snake was famine, starvation, death" (Amis, 140). This failure of governmental policy can be attributed to the overly ideological approach of Stalin's tactics, in that he lacked the foresight to see the full implications of his actions and refused to terminate the policy in spite of the horrible effects felt among the people. The party's hardliner approach led to the death and suffering of millions within the rural population.
Workers in England did not fare much better during the country's early period of industrialization. Early on, England's Entrepreneurs faced the same problem – the lack of an urban work force.
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