The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.