“… carry out merciless mass terror against the kulaks, priests and White Guards; unreliable elements to be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

As quoted in George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police (1981), page 103.
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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