Sometimes they were called “Lishentsi”, sometimes they were called “land lords”, “Romanov lackies”, “the rich”, “the elite” or simply “the middle class”; no matter what the ruling Soviets labeled their preferred bogeymen, they wanted them out of the way. The attached article goes into some detail as to how this was done.
Read a 1945 article about the roots of
Communism in Cuba
Additional magazine and newspaper articles about the Cold War may be read on this page.
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