You gotta set precedent somewhere. Lenin didn't show up day-1 of his revolution and say "okay, time to starve all the farmers to death because I enjoy lethal irony.", you set precedent with things few people would argue against.
Actually, he did. It was called War Communism. After the civil war ended, he had to relent, and peasants acquired some economic and personal freedom until collectivization.
You gotta set precedent somewhere. Lenin didn't show up day-1 of his revolution and say "okay, time to starve all the farmers to death because I enjoy lethal irony.", you set precedent with things few people would argue against.
Actually, he did. It was called War Communism. After the civil war ended, he had to relent, and peasants acquired some economic and personal freedom until collectivization.