Abstract
The article investigates the processes that took place in agriculture of Podillya before and at the beginning of forced collectivization. The author uses archival sources to reveal technologies of destruction of a wealthy farmer – the main manufacturer of bread – through fomenting of «class conflict». The reasons of these processes lie in the grain purchase plans but mostly in purposefulpolicy of the regime whose aim was the decimation of grain-growing elite of Ukrainian nation. Author concludes that the events of 1928-1929 in Ukrainian agriculture, especially Podillia, mark the beginning of genocide directed against the Ukrainians.