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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Leon Trotsky

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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Respect
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
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
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 history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Absolute Circumstance Peace Rule War
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Beautiful Full Future Generation Life Oppression Violence
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
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 pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness

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