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“... Two Kulaks have just distanced themselves from us!”

“Go and kill them then!” said the little girl.

“That’s not allowed, my daughter. Two persons don’t make a class.”

“There was one, and then another one,” countered the little girl.

“But overall there were still too few of them,” regretted Safronov. “Our task, according to the plenum, is to liquidate them as a class and nothing less–the landless laborers and the entire proletariat must be orphaned from their enemies.”

“Who will you be left with then?”

“We’ll be left with tasks. With the hard line of the furthest measures–get what I mean?”

“Yes,” replied the little girl. “You mean kill off all the bad people because there aren’t enough good ones.”

The Foundation Pit, Andrey Platonov