'person under the kulaks'; also translated as "sub-kulak" or "kulak henchman") was a political label used in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s to brand people considered traitors to the Soviet Government.
[Following the revolution, it] was the perfect time to settle accounts with them of jealousy, envy, insult.
By this time it had no 'social' or 'economic' context whatsoever, but it had a marvelous sound: Podkulachnik - 'a person aiding the kulaks.'
The most tattered laborer in the countryside could quite easily be labeled a podkulachnik.
[2]In Hungary under Mátyás Rákosi, a podkulachnik was called Kulákbérenc, meaning "kulak hireling".