Dmitri Volkogonov quotes
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“It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.”
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“All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning”
-- Dmitri VolkogonovSource : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster
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“Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists”
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“We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past”
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“The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev”
-- Dmitri Volkogonov
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”
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