The blacklists also served as a lesson in the folly of resistance in Ukraine. Unlike Russia and Belarus, where the term “blacklist” was confined to grain producers, in Ukraine it could be applied to almost any entity. Whole districts were blacklisted. Machine tractor stations, timber companies and all kinds of provincial enterprises only distantly connected to grain production were blacklisted. As one historian has written, “the blacklist became a universal weapon aimed at all rural residents” in Ukraine.
