Blaming the victim is as old as history.
The Leninists blamed the Kulaks (”bourgeois” farmers) for impeding the progress of the proletariat. Kulaks were murdered by the millions just for having one or more horses. After that, nobody had anything, and millions more starved to death.
See? Lenin was brilliant.
I once worked for the son of a Kulak farmer. He had emigrated to the States and was a successful businessman. If you wanted to hear some hair-raising stories all you had to do was get him drunk and ask him about the war (WWII). He fought for the Nazis against the Soviets and he gave them hell in the worst ways imaginable. To the end of his days he secretly sent money to help finance something inside the USSR (I suspected industrial sabotage). He died the same month that the USSR ceased to exist. I sometimes think that it was because he knew his work was done.
See my tagline.
We are all kulaks now.
“Blaming the victim is as old as history.”
Cain blamed Abel.