Burdening the proletariat with unbearable suffering is a tent pole policy of revolutionary communists. I was looking for a particular Lenin quote to articulate that statement, something along the lines of 'it is good when the people suffer, suffering makes people revolutionaries', but I couldn't find it. I did however find a website of Lenin quotes and the guy was a real jerk, look at these - https://www.azquotes.com/author/8716-Vladimir_Lenin