[BluegrassScholar]

Our few discussions have centered on contemporary political and post-colonial issues. Lunch with Hitch and Solzehnitsyn together would be a treat.

[secretagent]

In 1929 Stalin called for 'the liquidation of the kulaks', and their small family farms, animals, implements and crops were declared to belong to the state. "Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev had always argued that the peasant would never surrender enough food voluntarily, and must be coerced and, if need be, crushed" (*Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World (1983) p 268). The Red Army and the GPU secret police were used to implement the policy. All peasants who resisted were treated with violence. A very large number were killed or sent in cattle or freight trains to exile in remote areas in the frozen north or the desert steppes.

Such a humanist, that Trotsky. Wasn't he head of the Red Army?

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