Here comes more crumbs: Filthy Truth 21.17

Joseph Stalin:
The story goes that Stalin ordered someone to meet him one winter day, alone, in a courtyard where some chickens were kept. Stalin picked up a rooster by the neck, plucked all its feathers and put the shivering bird back on the ground with a bit of grain. Then Stalin walked away, with the rooster huddling against Stalin’s boots, trying to keep warm.

The moral, the tyrant explained, was that “this is the way to rule people. Take everything they have away from them and they will follow you for a little food.”