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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Leon Trotsky

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
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
In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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Country Possible Realization Social
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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Country Existence Record Revolution
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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Determination Forever Method Usage
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify

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