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all leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, a party filled with enemies of the people, are hereby to be considered outlaws, and are to be arrested immediately and brought before the revolutionary court. (Lenin)

Eliot A Cohen, counsellor to former Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said: "The language of an aspiring tyrant. *And no, not a joke, and not an exaggeration, and not a thought spasm from a disordered intellect."

The expression was also a favourite of Mao, who died in 1976.**The Chinese leader, who quoted the term to denounce anyone who criticised his policies,*created the Great Famine that killed an estimated 36 million Chinese.
When David Axelrod, former chief strategist for Barack Obama, noted on Twitter that no other president would have used the term,*Li Yuan, a journalist in China, pointed out:*"Chairman Mao had. Every dissenting voice was "the enemy of the people" under Mao."

(Taken from the Telegraph)