HST 540 Lecture Notes - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin
10 Oct 2012
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Same slogan today as from the pioneer back in the day. Cheka: the all russia extrodiary commission for combating counter revolution, speculation and sabatoge. Want you to create a special system of terror/violence lenin. Feb 1922 gpu (state political administration) part of . National socialists in germany had no more than 30,000 people during ww2. Cheka has 250,000 soldiers in it"s ranks by the time it disappears. Relevant to russian population, it"s pretty much nothing. Anything is better than what they were dealing with before. Enormous threshold for anything: never slept, pathological, demonstrable things to show he had no threshold of pain. Open air camps, set up in the middle of nowhere. Cheka: go to war with special classes of people. Kulaks: land owning peasants, farmers, ukraine, kill them or send them to camps, or. If you purge your state, eventually, there is no one left and they are all gone.
