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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

centration camps. Everyone heard and read only about “political” reasons for repres-
sion.

Five million relatively affluent and well-endowed peasants were accused of be-
ing kulaks (wealthy farmers) and thrown into camps. They were the most active
group of citizens and therefore impeded the authorities’ efforts to transform them into
slaves who would work on the country’s collective and state farms without having
even passports and, actually, any rights at all. If these five million had remained free,
other peasants would have never gone to collective farms “voluntarily”. If a peasant
had two cows and a horse, he was already accused of being a kulak, if he hired a sea-
sonal worker — he turned into a “blood-sucker” according to Bolshevist propaganda!
The fact that this “blood-sucker” worked on the fields equally with the workers he
hired and sometimes more, as did all his family members, was not taken into account
for “some” reason.

However, not only “kulaks” were sent to concentration camps! Any thinking
person, anyone who asked the “wrong” questions, not to mention he who raised his
voice, in other words, anyone who did not fit into the Procrustean bed of a slave was
sent to the same camps as the kulaks were. They were labelled “enemies of people”,
“saboteurs”, “spies”, etc. even though their “spying” activity consisted, mainly, in the
reading of “wrong” books, listening to “wrong” radio stations, expression of “wrong”
ideas… this list can be endless. The majority had no relation whatsoever to what they
were accused of, but they were doomed to find themselves in camps. There were sev-
eral reasons for it:

1. These people could not be influenced by psi-generators and communist prop-
aganda.

2. These people were a bad example for others.
3. A free of charge labour force was needed to create military industry in par-
ticular and industrialize the whole country in general.

Joseph Stalin and his group decided to get rid of “inconvenient” people and at
the same time get the necessary free working hands and not just hands, but powerless
slaves! Many millions of people, the majority of who had done nothing bad to any-
body, but who for one or another reason were “inconvenient” for the existent regime,
appeared in concentration camps. All of them were forced to work for 10-12 hours a
day for their piece of bread. If free people had done the same work, the authorities
would have had to pay a decent salary each month, build normal houses for the fami-
lies of workers, organize a normal way of life, etc. All this would have been at enor-
mous cost and require enormous additional resources and a lot of time, which did not
suit Stalin and his clique. Throwing millions of people into concentration camps, they
quickly and easily got rid of this “headache”: there was no need to spend enormous
resources and funds to solve these problems! Isn’t it a “brilliant” economic solution?
However, there is one little “but” here.

Such an inhuman approach was used only in the time of the slave-owning sys-
tem and only in regard to people taken prisoner during war campaigns, BUT NEV-
ER — toward one’s own people!

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