Red_Scare [he/him]

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  • You are completely misinformed.

    First of all “kulaks” were not working peasants who lived self-sufficiently off farming their land and raising their livestock, you are thinking of “serednyaks”, the class below kulaks in the 4-tier rural class system of Imperial Russia. Kulaks were rural loan sharks and land owners who did not work but rather lived off extortionate interest rates from loans to “serednyaks” and from exploiting the labour of “bednyaks” (literally “the poor”) and, mainly, the seasonal labour of “batraks” who were the class below “the poor” - many of them homeless, traveling from village to village and working quite literally for a bit of food and a place to sleep in the barn.

    If you intend to keep talking publically about kulaks, do look into those classes, look up who batraks were and what kind of life they lead before the revolution, the mortality, the diseases, how many they were compared to the number of kulaks. Find out what dekulakisation brought not only for kulaks, but also for that huge number of serednyaks, bednyaks, and batraks they exploited. Find out what dekulakisation did to overall child mortality, child hight, life expectancy, and so on.

    Second, kulaks were not murdered, they were eliminated as an economic class by removing the relataionship of exploitation. Their lands were taken and given to the people, and the ones who resisted were deported with their families.





















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    Also that quote is so much better in Russian! Lenin’s biting humour often gets lost in translation. In Russian “go into the swamp” is an insult akin to English “bugger off”, so Lenin starts with this poetic description of comrades advancing under enemy fire, but by the end of the passage turns it into the most polite “go fuck yourselves” possible: “you’re free to go into the swamp and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there, only let go of our hands”


  • As Shrike said, it’s a generic Russian word for special forces, e.g. American TV show S.W.A.T. was aired in Russia under the name Spetsnaz.

    It’s an abbreviation of “spetsialnogo naznacheniya” which means “special purpose”, kinda like the English word SpecOps for special operations, but the meaning is closer to the English word “commandoes”.