There were many tactics Joseph Stalin used to oppress individuals living in the Soviet Union. Some of these include confiscation of private property, political persecution, and mass deportation. Socialism requires government control of the industry, so Stalin and his men confiscated private farms and businesses and ran them as government entities. Without private property, individuals had to rely on the government to survive.
Many of the peasants resisted this collectivization (especially on the farms), and Stalin responded with the Great Purge. During the Great Purge, Stalin arrested or killed millions of people, many of whom were peasants opposed to agricultural collectivism. Anyone opposed to the ruling party faced persecution.
Third, Stalin oversaw the forced deportation of millions of people who belonged to ethnicities whom Stalin claimed "collaborated" with the enemy during World War II (such as Poles and Germans). Many of these people were forced to leave their homes and move to Siberia.
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