“I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

As quoted in George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police (1981), p. 119.
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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