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During the soviet era, the Soviet government significantly curbed the rule of law, civil liberties, protection of law and guarantees of property, which were considered as examples of "bourgeois morality" by Soviet law theorists such as Andrey Vyshinsky According to Vladimir Lenin, the purpose of socialist courts was not to eliminate terror but to substantiate it and legitimize it in principle".Propaganda poster in Petrograd 1918: "Death to the Bourgeoisie and its lapdogs – Long live the Red Terror"
Among the victims of the Red Terror were aristocrats tsarists,  liberals, non-Bolshevik socialists,  anarchists, members of the clergy, ordinary criminals,  counter-revolutionaries, and other political dissidents, Later industrial workers who failed to meet production quotas were also targeted..