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The enemy of the people was a fluid designation under the Bolsheviks' totalitarian regime in regards to their political or class opponents and, ironically, sometimes yesterday's kin. At various times it was applied to aristocrats, bourgeoisie, clerics, intelligentsia, mensheviks, SRs, Bundists, Zionists, trotskysts, kulaks, old Bolsheviks, the army and police, emigrants, Kavezhedists (people that administered and serviced the KVZhD, China Far East Railway, in particular, Russian population of Harbin, China) , members of certain etnic groups (notably Chechens, Tatars, Germans, Jews, Poles)...

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An Enemy of the People is a play written in 1882 by Henrik Ibsen.

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