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.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.