How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
[The] gray-haired revolutionary cooperator Kostoed-Amursky […] had been in all the forced labor camps of the old times and had opened a series of them in the new time. (7.10.1)
It's funny how the tables can turn in a few short years. In this case, a guy named Kostoed-Amursky has spent much of his past in prison camps because he was sympathetic to the Communist cause. Now that the Communists are in control, though, he's the one opening new prison camps. You'd think he might learn his lesson and decide to end the whole prison camp cycle that's going on. But no, he just enjoys being the one on top now.
Quote #5
When enough of them had accumulated, Red Army soldiers came, surrounded them, and took them for the night to the Semyonovsky barracks, and in the morning dispatched them to the station, to be put on the train to Vologda. (7.11.2)
In Communist Russia, everyone has a job. But no one ever said you have a job that you want. In the interest of having zero unemployment, the Russian government rounds people up and sends them off to labor camps, which are basically just prison camps. That said, the strange thing is that the Soviets aren't just sending unemployed people; they're sending anyone they want, whether these people already have jobs or not.
Quote #6
"We've pacified them. Like silk now. We knocked off a few as an example, and the rest got quiet. We collected a contribution." (7.21.9)
When it comes to "pacifying" rebelling villagers, the Red Army doesn't mess around. They kill several people from that village (it doesn't matter whom) and then steal a bunch of the villagers' stuff in order to teach them a lesson about standing up for themselves. The lesson is: don't do it.