When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand … - Vladimir Lenin

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When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...’”

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About Vladimir Lenin

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.

Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Pavel Zhukov (Public domain / CC0)

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Pen Names: Ленин Ильин Н. Ленин Старик К. Тулин Lenin
Native Name: Владимир Ильич Ленин
Alternative Names: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Vladimir Il'ich Lenin Vladimir Il'ich Ul'yanov V. I. Ul'yanov V. I. Lenin Vladimir Ulyanov Vladimir Ul'yanov V. I. Ulyanov Vl llyin Владимир Ильич Ульянов

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About three million must be regarded as middle peasants, while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers... Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! ... [Class struggle entails] ruthless suppression of the kulaks, those bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.

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Repudiation of the Party principle and of Party discipline - that is what the opposition has arrived at . And this is tantamount to completely disarming the proletariat in the interests of the bourgeoisie It all ads up to that petty-bourgeois diffuseness and instability, that incapacity for sustained effort, unity and organized actions, which, if encouraged, must inevitably destroy any proletarian revolutionary movement.

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