"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
-Vladimir Lenin
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"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.“
-Vladimir Lenin
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"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."
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"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
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"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."
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"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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