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This is mostly for research porpoises. (If anyone tried to look for this in Russian: А. Солженицын. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. т.2; ч.3; гл.1)

Here is the part of the Gulag Archipelago where Alexander Solzhenitsyn writes about the 66 million killed by soviets.
Here are some parts from Lenin's Collected Works that were used:

"THE BASIC PROVISIONS OF THE ECONOMIC AND IN THE PECULIARITY OF THE BANK POLICY 85
I. Bringing to the end the nationalization of industry and exchange. P. Nationalization of banks and the gradual transition to socialism.
III. Forced association of the population in consumer societies.
{+ Goods exchange}
IV. Accounting and control of production and distribution of products.
V. Labor discipline.
{+ Tax policy}
Labor service, started from above.
Recognition is absolutely necessary and urgent the most ruthless measures to combat chaos, disorder and idleness, the most determined and draconian measures to raise discipline and self-discipline of workers and peasants.
The transformation of state control into real control to create volatile groups of controllers in all areas of economic life.
Practical conditions for attracting to the work of the bourgeois intelligentsia and saboteurs expressing a desire to work with the Soviet authorities.
Industrial courts to record production, product stocks and labor productivity. " = Lenin's Collected Works Volume 36, page 217 leninvi.com/t36/p215

“The expression "the state dies away" is chosen very successfully, because it indicates both the gradualness of the process and its spontaneity. Only a habit can and will undoubtedly have such an effect, for we see ourselves around us millions of times, how easily people get used to observing the rules of the hostel necessary for them, if there is no exploitation, if there is nothing that disturbs, causes protest and insurrection, creates the need for repression .
So: in a capitalist society, we have a democratically cut, shabby, false, democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time give democracy to the people, to the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the minority, the exploiters. Communism alone is able to give democracy really complete, and the more complete it is, the sooner it becomes unnecessary, it will wither away of itself.
In other words: under capitalism, we have a state in the proper sense of the word, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another and, in the majority, by a minority. It is clear that for the success of such a case as the systematic suppression by the minority of the exploiters of the majority of exploited people, extreme ferocity, brutality of suppression is needed, blood seas are needed through which mankind goes its way in a state of slavery, serfdom, mercenary.
Further, in the transition from capitalism to communism, suppression is still necessary, but the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the exploited. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, a "state" still it is necessary, but this is already a transitional state, it is no longer a state in the proper sense, for the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of yesterday's wage slaves is so comparatively easy, simple and natural that it will cost much less blood than suppressing uprisings of slaves, serfs, wage workers, that it will cost mankind much cheaper. And it is compatible with the spread of democracy to such a… “ = Lenin's Collected Works Volume 33, page 90. leninvi.com/t33/p090

Just in case anyone tried to look for this in Russian:

Description
This is mostly for research porpoises. (If anyone tried to look for this in Russian: А. Солженицын. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. т.2; ч.3; гл.1)

Here is the part of the Gulag Archipelago where Alexander Solzhenitsyn writes about the 66 million killed by soviets.
Here are some parts from Lenin's Collected Works that were used:

"THE BASIC PROVISIONS OF THE ECONOMIC AND IN THE PECULIARITY OF THE BANK POLICY 85
I. Bringing to the end the nationalization of industry and exchange. P. Nationalization of banks and the gradual transition to socialism.
III. Forced association of the population in consumer societies.
{+ Goods exchange}
IV. Accounting and control of production and distribution of products.
V. Labor discipline.
{+ Tax policy}
Labor service, started from above.
Recognition is absolutely necessary and urgent the most ruthless measures to combat chaos, disorder and idleness, the most determined and draconian measures to raise discipline and self-discipline of workers and peasants.
The transformation of state control into real control to create volatile groups of controllers in all areas of economic life.
Practical conditions for attracting to the work of the bourgeois intelligentsia and saboteurs expressing a desire to work with the Soviet authorities.
Industrial courts to record production, product stocks and labor productivity. " = Lenin's Collected Works Volume 36, page 217 leninvi.com/t36/p215

“The expression "the state dies away" is chosen very successfully, because it indicates both the gradualness of the process and its spontaneity. Only a habit can and will undoubtedly have such an effect, for we see ourselves around us millions of times, how easily people get used to observing the rules of the hostel necessary for them, if there is no exploitation, if there is nothing that disturbs, causes protest and insurrection, creates the need for repression .
So: in a capitalist society, we have a democratically cut, shabby, false, democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time give democracy to the people, to the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the minority, the exploiters. Communism alone is able to give democracy really complete, and the more complete it is, the sooner it becomes unnecessary, it will wither away of itself.
In other words: under capitalism, we have a state in the proper sense of the word, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another and, in the majority, by a minority. It is clear that for the success of such a case as the systematic suppression by the minority of the exploiters of the majority of exploited people, extreme ferocity, brutality of suppression is needed, blood seas are needed through which mankind goes its way in a state of slavery, serfdom, mercenary.
Further, in the transition from capitalism to communism, suppression is still necessary, but the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the exploited. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, a "state" still it is necessary, but this is already a transitional state, it is no longer a state in the proper sense, for the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of yesterday's wage slaves is so comparatively easy, simple and natural that it will cost much less blood than suppressing uprisings of slaves, serfs, wage workers, that it will cost mankind much cheaper. And it is compatible with the spread of democracy to such a… “ = Lenin's Collected Works Volume 33, page 90. leninvi.com/t33/p090

Just in case anyone tried to look for this in Russian: