Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

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.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.