The 1918 Soviet Constitution deprived clergy and peasants who hired at least one worker at harvest time of rights, including food rations and education.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The 1918 RSFSR Constitution stripped voting and election rights from monks and clergy and from persons who employed hired labor for profit, which supports the core of the claim.
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… guess the latest number is like 25% of the peasants participated in the uprisings in the entire country, and maybe 0.8% of the population, half a million people, were active in terms of imposing communist policies on the countryside. So, and then, of course, the Constitution written by Lenin and his friends, adopted in 1918, was also just justification for terrorism, since anyone that didn't like was called a non-laboring class, non-laboring group, which, of course, included the clergy and any peasant that was doing fairly well. About 5 million peasants hired at least one worker at harvest time. And remember, the deprivation of rights wasn't just to the person, but all their family members, and it also meant the deprivation of food rations. The Soviets were able, at least in the big cities, to put them on rations, and of course they couldn't be educated or anything else. …
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Supports. Article 65 of the 1918 RSFSR Constitution denies the right to vote and to be elected to persons who employ hired labor to increase profits and to monks and clergy of all denominations.[1]
Supports. Secondary histories state that the 1918 Constitution denied political rights to non-working classes and to higher classes, and that clergy and those employing labor fell into these excluded categories.[2][3]
Context. Article 17 of the 1918 Constitution promises free education to workers and the poorest peasants, which implies but does not explicitly state that other groups were denied education.[4]
Context. None of the sources mention food rationing as part of the constitutional deprivations, and none use the 'at least one worker at harvest time' wording.[1][4]
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- 1Article 4 (R.S.F.S.R. Constitution)marxists.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 21918 Constitution of Soviet Russia - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3The first Constitution of RSFSR adopted | Presidential Librarywww.prlib.ru › historyprlib.ru · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4marxistleninists.org · Soviet Archives · ConstitutionConstitution of the RSFSR - 1918 - marxistleninists.orgmarxistleninists.org · not rated · cited for: context
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