A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing. In other words, we never did trust the engineers - and from the very first years of the Revolution we saw to it that those lackeys and servants of former capitalist bosses were kept in line by healthy suspicion and surveillance by the workers. -- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago"

A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time

had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had

come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to

catching instructions on the wing. In other words, we never did trust

the engineers - and from the very first years of the Revolution we saw to

it that those lackeys and servants of former capitalist bosses were kept

in line by healthy suspicion and surveillance by the workers.

-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago"



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