fresh activists were also deliberately sent from outside the republic at this time. In December 1932, Kaganovich visited Voznesensk in southern Ukraine and told a group of party activists that they were not tough enough: “A Ukrainian saying has it that ‘you should twist, but not overtwist.’ ” But they have decided “not to twist at all.” The goal, he explained frankly, was to put villages in such a panic “that the peasants themselves give away their hiding places.”
