The "someone" you refer to was the inventor of that whole concept - the 'Rats, and the 'Rat party.
Oh, yeah... somehow the clairvoyant future-seer Joseph Stalin used the methods as well, knowing they would later by invented by the 'Rats.
Yeah, the dem-lib-commie-rats have done it for decades, and continue to do it. The whole Stalin attribution is likely an urban legend, but close enough to reality to get a lot of play on the Net.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/stalin_quote.htm