“… catch and shoot the Astrakhan speculators and bribe-takers. These swine have to be dealt [with] so that everyone will remember it for years.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 201.
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