The Following Is an Excerpt from Fedor Belov's Account of Life

The following is an excerpt from Fedor Belov's account of life on a collective farm in the Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s (Evaluating the Evidence 27.2) : "By late 1932 more than 80 per cent of the peasant households in the raion [district] had been collectivized. . . . That year the peasants harvested a good crop and had hopes that the calculations would work out to their advantage and would help strengthen them economically. These hopes were in vain. The kolkhoz workers received only 200 grams of flour per labor day for the first half of the year; the remaining grain, including the seed fund, was taken by the government. The peasants were told that industrialization of the country, then in full swing, demanded grain and sacrifices from them."
According to Belov, how did the government justify taking almost all of the peasants' harvest?

A) The peasants had far more food than they needed.
B) The grain was needed to help keep up the pace of industrialization.
C) The peasants had cheated the government in previous years.
D) The grain was needed to help strengthen the army.