Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working … - Vladimir Lenin
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married the revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
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Ленин
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Ильин
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Н. Ленин
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Старик
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К. Тулин
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Lenin
Native Name:
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Alternative Names:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
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Vladimir Il'ich Lenin
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Vladimir Il'ich Ul'yanov
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V. I. Ul'yanov
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V. I. Lenin
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Vladimir Ulyanov
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Vladimir Ul'yanov
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V. I. Ulyanov
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Vl llyin
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Владимир Ильич Ульянов
It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church valuables... I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come... The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.”
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
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