Lavrentiy Beria’s chilling dictum, ‘Show me a man and I will show you the crime’ perfectly encapsulates the progressive left’s bend towards ideological puritanism and conformism. Beria sowed terror in the hearts of Russians. Untold misery, torture, death, followed in his wake with the explicit blessing of the Revolution’s leaders.
He was but one goblin in an era engulfed in merciless retribution and wanton cruelty, actions which propped up the communist state for 70+ years and which still hold parts of the world under the iron boot of progressivism run amok.
We in the West – America and Europe alike – hover at the precipice. Perhaps the last election pulled us back from the edge. Some claim victory; others warn the threat merely went underground, regrouping in the shadows. Regardless, the toxic miasma of progressive ideologies continues bubbling up, putrefying Western culture and politics as it has for at least half a century already.
Nothing keeps a gulag away but the will of the people, but the progressive left has learned how to crush this will, having already subsumed the will and rational thought of its supporters.
The old saying goes ‘Read ’em and weep!’- but we’d say, ‘Read ’em and fear!’
LAVRENTIY BERIA (Head of the Soviet NKVD)
‘Show me the man, and I will show you the crime.’ *
‘The people who go to prison are those who do not know how to live according to the rules of our society.’
‘I believe that the punishment for treason should be death.’
‘We must defend the revolution by any means.’
‘We will kill anyone who stands in our way, anyone who tries to oppose us.’
LEON TROTSKY (Revolutionary Leader, Marxist Theorist)
‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’
‘The greatest crime is to betray the revolution.’
‘Revolution is not a one-time event. It is a constant process of struggle, even with bloodshed.’
‘The struggle for power is a life-and-death struggle. If you hesitate, you will be crushed.’
‘The dictatorship of the proletariat is a necessity, and it must be maintained at all costs.’
VLADIMIR LENIN ( Revolutionary Leader, Founder of Communist Russia)
‘The use of force is sometimes necessary to defend the revolution.’
‘A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; a revolutionary situation is impossible without a revolutionary party.’ *
‘We must be ruthless towards those who stand in the way of the revolution.’ *
‘The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another.’
‘Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.’
‘If we do not destroy our enemies, they will destroy us.’
‘The proletariat must be prepared to use violence to achieve its goals.’
The enemy will never surrender without bloodshed.’
‘The dictatorship of the proletariat must be enforced with an iron fist.’
JOSEPH STALIN (Post-Revolutionary Communist Leader)
‘Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.’ *
‘The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.’ *
‘The only good capitalist is a dead capitalist.’
‘We do not need to be ashamed of the blood that is shed in the revolution.’ ‘The blood of the enemies of the revolution is necessary.’
‘The kulaks are enemies of the people and should be liquidated.’ *
‘The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.’ *
‘It is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes.’ *
‘We are the masters of the situation. Let the others tremble.’
‘The struggle for power must be absolute. There can be no compromises.’
‘We will make the country fear us, and it will respect us.’
*attributed
For more on Marxist/totalitarian/communist violence read our in-depth review on 1984 Georgian film REPENTANCE
And also here LAND OF THE SO-SO FREE
And in this TABLET MAGAZINE article