It's what socialists and communists do, ask a Ukrainian farmer, a Chinese peasant, a German Jew, a Burmese "intellectual" or an Argentinian student.
This, BTW, is why they support universal gun confiscation. Since they can't control their own violent and evil thoughts, they assume the rest of us can't either!
Oh, I think it’s a matter of making all dissenters disappear, by any means neccessary!