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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