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B.11
Order from Lenin to communists in Penza, August 11, 1918,
demanding that they publicly hang at least 100 kulaks and
confiscate their grain, to set an example.
11-8-18
Send to Penza
To Comrades Kuraev,
Bosh, Minkin and
other Penza
communists
Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost's must be suppressed
without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this,
because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the
kulaks." We need to set an example.
1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public
sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the
bloodsuckers.
2) Publish their names.
3) Take away all of their grain.
4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's
telegram.
This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for
hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out:
let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.
Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.
Yours, Lenin
P.S. Use your toughest people for this.
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TRANSLATOR'S COMMENTS: Lenin uses the derogative term
kulach'e in reference to the class of prosperous peasants. A volost'
was a territorial/administrative unit consisting of a few villages and
surrounding land.
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