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The decisions to strip the peasants of their grain came from Moscow.
剝奪掉農(nóng)民的糧食的決定來自莫斯科
To Lenin the peasants, especially the better off ones or Kulaks, were all liches anyway.
對列寧來說，特別是富農(nóng)們，不管怎樣都是妖魔
And peasants who wanted to keep more grain than they could eat deserved death.
而那些希望保留有多過口糧糧食的農(nóng)民都當受死
The decision to conscript all able-bodied males into the Read Army came from Moscow.
所有身強力壯的男性都要強制征入紅軍的決定也來自莫斯科
The penalty for refusal to serve was death.
拒絕入伍的懲罰便是死刑
All economic decisions, great or small, came out of Moscow and there was no appeal.
所有大大小小的經(jīng)濟決定來自莫斯科，沒有上訴權(quán)
It's not that there wasn't friction.
并非不存在摩擦
Even the communists themselves disagreed from time to time: sometimes even Lenin had to defend himself.
甚至共產(chǎn)黨他們自己也不時互相反對：有時甚至列寧也要為自己辯護
The Red Army commander Trotsky and the minorities common, the Nationalities Commisar Stalin already hated each other.
紅軍總司令托洛茨基和民族委員長斯大林已經(jīng)互相憎恨對方了
But the communists always closed ranks against their enemies when the time came.
但關(guān)鍵時刻共產(chǎn)黨總會停止內(nèi)戰(zhàn)一致對外
They were guided less by Marxist scripture than by the will to survive.
與其說是馬克思主義箴言，不如說是生存下來的意愿在引導(dǎo)著他們
When the Central Committee decided in August 1918
當中央委員會于1918年8月決定
that the deposed royal family could be a rallying point for the White Russians the entire family was shot.
被廢黜的皇室或許會號召俄國白軍進行造反，于是整個皇室都被射殺
Later that month Lenin himself was wounded by a socialist revolutionary named Fanya Kaplan.
8月晚些時候，列寧自己被一名叫做芬雅·卡普蘭的社會主義革命分子所傷
This gave Lenin's secret police, the Cheka, an excuse to eliminate droves of communist political opponents, real or perceived.
這給了列寧的秘密警察，即契卡來大批消滅共產(chǎn)黨政治對手的理由，不管這對手是真實存在還是假想出來的
