"Comrades, Red Army men! The alliance of the workers and peasants of the Red Army is firm, close and insoluble. The kulaks, the very rich peasants, are trying to foment revolts against Soviet power, but they constitute an insignificant minority. They rarely succeed in fooling the peasants, and then not for long. The peasants know that only in alliance with the workers can they vanquish the landowners."
No reason to post this - no reason to read anything but your own prejudices into it. What's actually pretty cool is there is audio of this speech on YouTube. But I don't speak Russian.
Do keep in mind they liquidated 7,000,000 kulaks when Lenin's successor decided they weren't going along with the program.
In a historical footnote, the New York Times failed to report the story, although they did win a Pulitzer Prize for their Moscow dispatches.
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