But, first, they came and took away all the firearms...
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“They came and took away all our grain...”
Right. Someone -— was it Solzhenitsyn? -—remarked that, just 20 years earlier, the Armenian Genocide proved that you don’t need gas chambers, tanks, crematoria etc. to commit genocide. You just need a few soldiers willing to make people march into the wilderness without food or water until they dropped. That -— and an unarmed populace.