The Soviet Robber Barons and Top 0.1%
Posted in Central Planning, Disingenuous, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Socialism, Special Privilege on Jan 9th, 2021
M0re from Pipes: The massacres of 1937-38 virtually wiped out the ranks of “old Bolsheviks,” whose place was taken by newcomers. In 1939, 80.5 percent of the executive personnel of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party had joined since Lenin’s death 15 From their ranks came the top officials of the party and government, the so-called […]