{"id":65239,"date":"2021-07-20T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65239"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:30:21","slug":"qotd-lenins-hanging-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/qotd-lenins-hanging-order\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Lenin&#8217;s &#8220;Hanging Order&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Lenin is the same cold-blooded thug who famously wrote, &#8220;We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth[.] &#8230; We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Lenin declared that &#8220;The proletariat needs state power, the centralized organization of force, the organization of violence, for the purpose of crushing the resistance &#8230; and for the purpose of leading the great mass of the population &#8230; in the work of organizing a socialist economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In August 1918, Lenin sent his now famous &#8220;Hanging Order&#8221; telegram. It instructed local Bolsheviks in the Penza region to deal harshly with the farmers (<em>kulaks<\/em>) who owned land there and were standing in the way of its nationalization. The British historian Robert Service discovered it in Soviet archives in the 1990s. It read as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because &#8216;the last decisive battle&#8217; with the kulaks is now underway everywhere. An example must be made.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Hang (absolutely hang, in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fatcats, bloodsuckers.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Publish their names.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seize all grain from them.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Designate hostages, in accordance with yesterday&#8217;s telegram.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Do it in such a fashion, that for hundreds of miles around the people see, tremble, know, shout: &#8220;The bloodsucking kulaks are being strangled and will be strangled.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Telegraph receipt and implementation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yours, Lenin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. Use your toughest people for this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That chilling telegram ushered in the &#8220;Red Terror&#8221; which murdered Russians by the tens of thousands over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence W. Reed, <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/how-germanys-deal-with-the-devil-backfired-and-changed-history\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How Germany&#8217;s &#8216;Deal With the Devil&#8217; Backfired and Changed History&#8221;, <em>Foundation for Economic Education<\/em><\/a>, 2021-04-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenin is the same cold-blooded thug who famously wrote, &#8220;We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth[.] &#8230; We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.&#8221; Elsewhere, Lenin declared that &#8220;The proletariat needs state power, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41,1119,246],"tags":[780,1108,506,433,257],"class_list":["post-65239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-quotations","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-communism","tag-lenin","tag-revolution","tag-sovietunion","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gYf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67221,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65239\/revisions\/67221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}