Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

by Anne Applebaum

Public property (state, kolkhoz, cooperative) [is] the basis of the Soviet system; it is sacred and inviolable, and those attempting to steal public property must be considered enemies of the people…the decisive struggle against plunderers of public property is the foremost obligation of every organ of Soviet administration.

“Lenin was right in saying that a person who does not have the courage to swim against the current when necessary cannot be a real Bolshevik leader…”