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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

Leon Trotsky

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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Committee Himself Organization Party Politics
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence
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
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
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
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Development Law Position Revolution
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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History Individual Isolate Yourself
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
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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Creation Foundation Powerful World
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State

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