"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

confiscating wealth." (Lenin, "Collected Works", second edition, Vol. 29,
p. 491.)
He lacked mercy also for the common people; he did not give a thought
to their fate. At the same time, he constantly controlled the efficiency of
Chekists. On the 2nd of April 1921, he demanded a decrease in the
number of mouths to feed in the factories. He meant that those in excess
should be executed.
A true terrorist, Lenin demanded that the Bolsheviks should take
hostages, who were to be mercilessly executed if he did not have his way.
He commanded hostages to be taken in all plundering expeditions. Those
hostages were to be killed if wealth and possessions were not handed over
to the Red Guards, or if an attempt to conceal any part of their wealth was
made.
Eventually, all Soviet citizens became hostages anyway, locked into a
ghetto walled in by the iron curtain. Those who might pose a threat to the
Bolsheviks' dominion were isolated within the ghetto in the concentration
camps. The following can be read in "The Decision on the Red Terror",
September 5, 1918: "The Soviet Republic must rid itself of class enemies
by isolating them in concentration camps..." ("Decrees of the Soviet
Power", Moscow, 1964, p. 295.)
The author Maxim Gorky, who was well aware of Lenin's intolerance,
characterised him in this way: "Lenin was no all-powerful wizard, but a
cold-blooded bluff who cared nothing for either honour or the life of the
proletarian." Source: Gorky's article "To Democracy", published in the
newspaper Novaya Zhizn, No. 174, 7th (20th) of November 1917.
When the Jew Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, a close associate of Lenin,
tricd to restrain him somewhat, believing that the chief revolutionary
would bring about the wholesale destruction of Russia if he was not
halted, Lenin answered: "I spit on Russia, for I am a Bolshevik." (Igor
Bunich, "The Party's Gold", St. Petersburg, 1992, p. 17.) This expression
also became a slogan for the other leading Bolsheviks and Russia was
turned into a bandit state.
"Socialism is the ideology of envy," declared the philosopher Nikolai
Berdyayev in 1918. If he had said this openly, he would have been shot on
the spot. This was true, since Lenin, after exploiting the envy of the
workers and poor peasants, began to mercilessly eliminate those who
resisted him, just like when he clubbed the rabbits. He gave orders to open
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