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What Happens Downstream From a Famine?
Stalin would give police quotas for different areas of the country. He'd say, in Kazakhstan you need to arrest 50,000 people and 10,000 in Lviv. The secret police pride themselves on getting confessions out of people who were perfectly innocent. And if you're saying that we are arresting innocent people, that in and of itself is being counter-revolutionary and criticizing the government. This isn't just hearsay. Like they have the piece of paper where he's got the names of the different places and the numbers.