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

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 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
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
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
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Better Ignorance Problem Revolution Talk
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work

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