Dear Elizabeth and Mr. P Diddy Kong,
Welcome to our "blogging trinity"! (Mr. Diddy Kong, since you are an atheist, we are perfectly willing to refer to this group as a "trio" or "threesome" instead. :P) I am looking forward to writing this experimental research paper with all of you.
On to Lenin's legacy:
In Lenin's Hanging Order (1918), he commands the Bolsheviks to mobilize against one of the largest, most problematic classes in Russian society: the Kulaks. The Kulaks were a wealthy group of peasants, usually landed, with more education that the liberated serfs and strength in numbers. The Kulaks had benefited from the existence of the Tsarist state and would be opposed to its destruction; they had enough resources to actively fight a Bolshevik revolution. Thus, Lenin decreed that the entire class should be disposed of as soon as possible; the nobility and intellectuals would soon follow. The violence of the Bolsheviks would become a commonly used tactic in the USSR and modern-day Russia. Although there is no longer a Kulak class, the intellectual targets have remained the same over the years. The above report on Deutsche Welle illustrates the progression from Lenin's order to the modern day.
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