Worse , the village emerged in the midst of a disastrous famine brought on by rapid collectivization of farmland .
更糟糕的是这个村庄经历了由农田快速集体化带来的一场灾难性的饥荒。
He criticizes stalin 's policy of collectivization , but not on account of the millions of human lives that were violently truncated or broken in its course .