"Сначала были беспорядки в колхозах или убийства коммунистических чиновников и их агентов, но потом мы предпочли систему пассивного сопротивления, направленную на систематический подрыв большевистских планов сева и уборки. Катастрофа 1932 года была самым тяжелым ударом, Советской Украине со времен голода 1921-1922 годов. И осенняя и весенняя посевные провалились, целые поля оставались незасеянными, кроме того, во время уборки, особенно на юге, 20, 40, а местами и 50% полей было не убрано."
It is interesting to note that this eyewitness account was confirmed by a 1934 article by Isaac Mazepa, leader of the Ukrainian Nationalist movement, former Premier under Petliura in 1918. He boasted that in Ukraine, the right had succeeded in 1930--1932 in widely sabotaging the agricultural works.
`At first there were disturbances in the kolkhosi [collective farms] or else the Communist officials and their agents were killed, but later a system of passive resistance was favored which aimed at the systematic frustation of the Bolsheviks' plans for the sowing and gathering of the harvest .... The catastrophe of 1932 was the hardest blow that Soviet Ukraine had to face since the famine of 1921--1922. The autumn and spring sowing campaigns both failed. Whole tracts were left unsown, in addition when the crop was being gathered ... in many areas, especially in the south, 20, 40 and even 50 per cent was left in the fields, and was either not collected at all or was ruined in the threshing.' http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node77.html#SECTION00800900000000000000
