“You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

Also quoted as "Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms."
Letter to G. F. Fyodorov, August 9, 1918, Collected Works, vol. 35. 35 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/pdf/lenin-cw-vol-35.pdf
1910s

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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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