Instead, Kozlov said, “absolutely all documents testify that the chief enemy of Soviet power at that time was an enemy defined not on the basis of ethnicity but on the basis of class,” in this case the peasantry which Stalin wanted to force to join collective farms throughout whatever means he could.
Al contrario, Kozlov declaró que «todos los documentos corroboran que el principal enemigo del régimen estalinista no estaba definido por la etnia, sino por la clase social», en este caso el campesinado, a quien Stalin trataba de obligar por todos los medios a unirse a las granjas colectivas.