Does this sound familiar

The defamation tactic has a long and ignoble history. It was first systematically developed by a regime whose primary governing method was terrorism. One hundred years ago, the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, announced:
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language that inspires hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.”
His goal, adopted and practiced by the world’s communist parties, was to vilify, isolate, and destroy anyone who opposed their political goals, for any reason.

—James Simpson