Lenin's Economic Weapon: How Taxes and Inflation Crushed the Middle Class

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. -
Vladimir Lenin

Lenin's revolution, the resulting civil war and famines, and the domestic repression that he led against dissidents and scapegoats directly led to the deaths of over 8 million citizens of the Russian Empire, many by starvation, torture, or summary execution.
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