Crime is a product of social excess.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

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.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

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

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.