Nazi Germany Adopts Alfred Rosenberg's Plan for Russia

In a wikipedia entry, there's this:

"In February 1942, under Rosenberg's plans, it tried to promulgate a program of land reform in the occupied territories in the USSR that included promises of decollectivization through abolition of kolkhozes and re-distribution of land to peasants for individual farming.
In practice, however, Rosenberg's authority was substantially undermined by the appointment of Erich Koch to administer Ukraine with orders from Hitler to be hard and brutal. Rosenberg wished to portray the Germans as liberators of Ukraine from Soviet domination, but Koch's brutality helped to push potential Ukrainian allies back to the Soviet camp."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostministerium

How can we make Hitler approve Rosenberg's idea for liberating Russian people, instead of brutal rule? Will this change the outcome of Barbarossa, if the switch of targets between Moscow and wheat field of Ukraine-oil fields of the Caucasus still happened?

Thanks in advance!
 
At first glance it seems Rosenburg's plan was utterly contrary to Nazi ideology and the precedent set in the occupation of Poland. He'd therefore have to spin it very hard in order to gain support, maybe couching his policies in terms of creating grateful and obedient servants for the Reich. However, the obviously different treatment from Poland could just be fuel for the fire for dissent and resistance movements (as if any were needed).
 
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Find a way to spin it so that only Russians are considered subhuman, and that with proper treatment the 'western slavs' could be made into loyal servants of their German masters?
 
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