Under Lenin’s decree (that from July 27, 1918) active anti-Semites were to be placed outside of the law — that is, to be shot even for agitating for a pogrom, not just for participating in one. The law encouraged each Jew to register a complaint about any ethnic insult visited upon him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian author) (Nobel Prize in Literature laureate) “200 Years Together - A History of the Russians and the Jews”, 2001