Tucker Carlson just used the word "Kulak" in his opening editorial ( repeatedly using some elitist obscure word that virtually no one knows. As Carlson often does in his editorials, completely derailing his own point.)
I looked it up as "kulac", and dictionary.com offered "do you mean
kulak". Luckily I made a fairly close guess:
Here's the definition:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kulakkulak [ koo-lahk, -lak; koo-lahk, -lak ]
noun (in Russia)
1. a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
2. (before the revolution of 1917) a prosperous, ruthless, and stingy merchant or village usurer.
ORIGIN OF KULAK
First recorded in 1875–80, kulak is from the Russian word
kulák, literally, fist.
It was the same in China, where minor land owners were demonized by the Chinese communist government, and many were killed in brutal ways by communist revolutionaries after 1949. That might have better made Carlson's point, if he bothered to explain the term before using it 5 times in his opening statement.
