" How these villains are able to instill fear and terror into people! How they take every opportunity to emphasize and parade their savagery! I get a sharp pain next to my left nipple whenever I hear words like “revolutionary tribunal.” Why “commissar,” why “tribunal,” why not simply “court”? All because when the Bolsheviks take cover under such sacred revolutionary words, they can bravely wade in blood up to their knees. "

― Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin , Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution