Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Telegram to Leon Trotsky (7 September 1918) http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/lenin/works/1918/sep/07ldt.htm as translated by Andrew Rothstein; the recovery he mentions was of the wounds he received in the assassination attempt on him a few days earlier; published in Collected Works, Vol. 35, p. 359 <br class="br">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. <br class="br">As translated in The Cheka : Lenin’s Political Police (1981) by George Leggett, p. 119, <br class="br">1910s