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

It is therefore hardly surprising that the Bolsheviks received enough
rifles and ammunition from the West to crush the Whites. The Western
democracies paid no heed to the reports which related that the majority of
those killed by the Reds were common people, the poor, the workers, even
pregnant women. This was confirmed by a 90-year-old exiled Estonian,
Kustav Pohla, in 1978. He had witnessed those crimes in Russia himself.
(Eesti Pdevaleht, Stockholm, 8th of April 1978.)
The Famine as a Weapon
Lenin knew he could break the back of the Whites by damaging the
peasants. The systematic confiscation of agricultural produce led to a
terrible famine which, in turn, caused epidemics of typhus and other
severe illnesses. People began plundering. The situation was chaotic. The
fact that the confiscated grain was sold abroad was concealed from the
public. In this way Lenin used the famine as a weapon against his enemies.
Another reason for the famine was to establish the Bolshevik regime
and to reduce the Russian population, according to Vladimir Soloukhin
("In the Light of Day", Moscow, 1992, p. 52). The situation deteriorated
drastically. Therefore, the Bolsheviks had to stop confiscating grain in
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