There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three m… - Robert Conquest

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There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.

Robert Conquest

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George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet known for his works on Soviet history, including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s first published in 1968.

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Native Name: George Robert Acworth Conquest

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