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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin

As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Control Mean Peace War World
It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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Build Children Education Myself
It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Fear Necessary Preparation Secret
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Revolution White Yourself
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Doctor Medicine
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Atheist Pieces
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Defeat Education Learning
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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Ability Education Mindset Power Struggle
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Freedom History Slave

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

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