The Undesirable Elements
within the Soviet Union

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.