“HANG (HANG WITHOUT FAIL, SO THE PEOPLE SEE) NO FEWER THAN ONE HUNDRED KULAKS, RICH MEN, BLOODSUCKERS... THE PEOPLE WILL SEE, TREMBLE, KNOW, SHOUT: THEY ARE STRANGLING AND WILL STRANGLE TO DEATH THE BLOODSUCKER KULAKS.”
- V. I. LENIN
(RICHARD PIPES, ED., THE UNKNOWN LENIN: FROM THE SECRET ARCHIVE [YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996], P. 50)