"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."
"In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality."
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Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?by Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman, (ch. 11), 1936.
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