The terms enemy of the people and enemy of the nation are designations for the political opponents and the social-class opponents of the power group within a larger social unit, who, thus identified,
In the year 49 BC, the Roman Senate declared Julius Caesar the enemy of the people of Rome (hostis publicus).
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
Enemy of the people
…obligatory expulsion from its territory". On 25 February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech to the Communist Party in which he claimed that Stalin was the author of the phrase and distanced himself from it, saying that it made debate impossible. "This term automatically made it unnecessary that…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar