dékoulakiser

A historical political verb, borrowed directly from Soviet history: to persecute and expropriate the koulaks (kulaks), the supposedly wealthier peasants targeted during Stalin's forced collectivization of agriculture (1929-1933). Appears only in historical writing about the USSR, never in ordinary speech.

• Le régime a entrepris de dékoulakiser les campagnes dès 1929. — The regime set about persecuting and dispossessing the kulaks in the countryside starting in 1929.
• Des millions de paysans ont été dékoulakisés et déportés. — Millions of peasants were stripped of their land as 'kulaks' and deported.
• Les historiens étudient comment le pouvoir soviétique a dékoulakisé certaines régions. — Historians study how the Soviet authorities carried out dekulakization in certain regions.

A loanword-style historical term tied to one specific episode of Soviet history — it has no everyday or figurative use in French, unlike some other political vocabulary that has drifted into general speech.

• politics Dékoulakisation — The Soviet repression campaign (1929-1933) that accompanied forced agricultural collectivization under Stalin, targeting so-called kulaks with mass arrests, executions, expropriation, and deportation — one of the defining episodes of early Soviet rural policy.