Grigory Zinoviev didn't just talk about killing millions of Russians but helped enable many.
Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky ordered the use of chemical weapons, including chlorine gas, against the peasants involved in the Tambov Rebellion in 1921.
The Tambov Rebellion (1920-1921) was a large-scale peasant uprising against the Bolshevik government's "War Communism" policies, specifically the forced requisition of grain.
Zinoviev had obtained the chlorine gas bombs from Germans in Halle at an antisocial socialists conference.
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1319/zinoviev-in-halle/
" We take what we need "
Grigory Zinoviev in 1919 regarding the Soviet government's policy towards non-Russian regions like Azerbaijan and Turkestan justifying resource extraction.
The quote, as cited in Donald Rayfield's book Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, is:
"We cannot do without Azerbaijan's oil or Turkestan's cotton. We take these things which we need, but not in the guise of the old imperialism".
This statement expressed Lenin's idea for Soviet centralization with "inimitable cynicism", illustrating the Bolsheviks' view on the economic integration of peripheral regions into the Soviet state, regardless of local sentiment.
Stalin did not fall from the sky.
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