Stalin in Power Quotes

“sixty-five-year-old peasant woman from a collective farm near Moscow was somehow denounced as a trotskistka (Trotskyist), a term she was so far from understanding that she confused it with traktoristka (tractor driver), and said to cellmates in prison, “They don’t put old women like me on tractors.” Having received a ten-year sentence for Trotskyist terrorism, she asked one cellmate, who happened to be Eugenia Ginzburg, “Are you one of those traktoristki too, dearie?” One”
― Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Russian Revolution From Above, 1928-1941