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Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky

Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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Country Discover Force Socialist Society
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Guide History Leadership Position Time
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves

Revolutions are always verbose.

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