Leon Trotsky Quotes
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionist, Statement, 1918
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Tens of thousands of Iranians were.
Vladimir Lenin. One of the claimed benefits of Capital Punishment has always been the inhibition of others, but it turned out that it was never very effective at that. However, prevention was Lenin’s major objective so he ordered public hanging instead of shooting—the usual method of execution at the time. This infamous quotation started the new Russian government off on a horrible record of civil and human rights. The people hanged were not particularly guilty of any crime. They were just people who had gotten, or whose family was, rich under the Czar. The disregard for rule of law was most dramatically evidenced by this Lenin order. Needless to say, rich people the world over, saw a great threat to their lives from this new state wanting to export its philosophy.
Mensheviks were the opposition political party to the Bolsheviks. Lenin used Ethnic Cleansing and deportation to gain control of areas where Mensheviks had and established following. It was so ruthlessly effective, that shortly thereafter the Mensheviks were no a significant force and the entire country was Bolshevik. Today, few people even know what a Menshevik was.
A Cossack revolt had broken out in 1707 and was put down by the Czar’s forces. He then issued what might be one of the first official orders for genocide. Few Cossacks survived.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
The moral imperative of submission rather than allowing a war started by the aggressor, logical for Pizarro and Church leaders of the time, is the same logic of aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein.
This was the origin of the dreaded secret police which received all this authority and mission with no checks and balances. See {613586} for Lenin’s description of the need.
Description of the tactic of terrorism as employed by Attila the Hun. This is one of the first articulate descriptions of the motivation of terror tactics.
The Roman Catholic Defender Organization had about 300 thousand volunteers, and Belfast was the central location of the Defender leaders.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky (/ˈtrɒtski/), was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.
