Lenin was not “targeting” what we think of today as “the middle class”.

He damn sure was. And him and Stalin were also targeting all the other socialists. And Stalin was also targeting random working class people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

Lenin and Stalin’s top targets was exterminating all the other socialists, not right wing people. All the members of these 2 socialist parties were either killed or forced into slave labor camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Revolutionary_Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshevik