They began to foster and incite splits and confrontations. They stoked supposed resentments among different national or ethnic communities based on Lenin’s idea that even small groups of villages could demand territorial autonomy.
尽管那时俄罗斯统治者的共产主义性质已名存实亡，但他们毫不犹豫地运用了老列宁主义的做法，制造煽动分裂和冲突活动。列宁认为，即使是村庄里的小团体也会要求领土自治权，他们根据列宁的这一观点，蓄意挑起不同国家和民族之间本不存在的种种仇恨。