Lenin instructed the People's Commissar of Justice to expand the use of executions and murder.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources show Lenin issuing instructions to the People's Commissar for Justice about terror and show-trial repression (Sources 3 and 6), which partly fits the claim's gist. None of them contains the specific instruction to expand executions and murder with the broad causes the post quotes, so the central assertion cannot be graded either way.
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… of a systemic series of camps integrated with the economy and staffed by, you know, whoever was unlucky enough to be arrested, that was a Soviet creation, and it didn't end with the so-called victory in the Civil War in 1922. He continued. He said this, Lenin said this to the People's Commissar of Justice, that we have to expand the use of executions and murder without any apology, without any embellishment, and make the causes for execution to be as broad as humanly possible. And the broader point here is that it proves that Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin did not differ really in any respect, not ideologically, not in terms of policy. …
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Supports. A government record quotes Lenin ordering the Commissar for Justice to justify terror and ensure courts do not abolish it, showing he gave the Commissar instructions endorsing terror.[1]
Supports. A scholarly source states that Lenin issued instructions to the People's Commissar for Justice calling for 'noisy, educative model trials' of political opponents, consistent with a directive to pursue repression.[4]
Context. Other sources document Lenin's endorsement of mass terror and executions, including a 1918 letter ordering hangings, but none is addressed to the Commissar of Justice or contains the quoted wording about expanding executions and murder.[2][3][5]
Context. The quoted words 'expand the use of executions and murder' and 'as broad as humanly possible' do not appear in any provided source, so the specific instruction is unverified.[1][4]
Sources
5 sources: 3 primary, 2 not rated
- 1GOVERNMENTgovinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2REPORT +& 4 3FROM THE LI RARY OF CONGRESStile.loc.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, Veconfaculty.gmu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Conclusionlink.springer.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Crimes and Mass Violence of the Russian Civil Wars (1918-1921)sciencespo.fr · not rated · cited for: context
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