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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.

Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
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
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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Country Fear State Strong Terrify
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
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
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
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
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
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
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
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Eyes Reach Socialism State
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
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
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
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 main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Establishment Power Socialism Victory
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Complete Decision Force Necessary
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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Life Old Oneself Realize Surprise
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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Communism Democracy Need Oxygen
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
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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