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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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As quoted in Speech to the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture, Collected Works, Vol. 29, p. 535)
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As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 203

 

Vladimir Lenin

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