The whole notion of exemplary violence seemed to fire Lenin's imagination. On August 11, 1918 he wrote a letter to Bolshevik leaders in Penza that speaks volumes: Comrades! The kulak uprising must be crushed without pity… An example must be made. 1} Hang {and I mean hang so that the people can see} not less than 100 known bloodsuckers. 2} Publish their names. 3} Take all their grain away from them… Do this so that for hundreds of miles around the people can see, tremble, know and cry: they are killing and will go on killing the bloodsucking kulaks… P.S. Find tougher people.
( Niall Ferguson )
[ The War of the World ]
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