1930 "If the enemy does not surrender, he is destroyed"
85 years ago, on November 15, 1930, Pravda and Izvestia published Maxim Gorky's article "If the enemy does not surrender, they destroy him", dedicated to the process of the Industrial Party. The writer argued: "Against us is everything that has outlived its time allotted to it by history; and this gives us the right to consider ourselves still in a state of civil war. A natural conclusion follows from this: if the enemy does not surrender, he is exterminated."