Retribution not enough

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Oct 24 20:42:39 PDT 2001


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> David Honig wrote:
>
> > No one forces a farmer to the city to look for an industrial job.

On 22 Oct 2001, at 12:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> In general, no. But it happens now and again.  Governments 
certainly did
> in (say) the old Soviet Union

I do not think so.

Lenin surrounded the cities to keep people and food from going in 
and out.   This was the first step in a program to reintroduce 
serfdom, binding the peasant to the land.

Lenin, and later Stalin, were waging war on the countryside to 
extort food without supplying goods.  This produced a flight from 
the countryside, that they immediately met with terror.

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