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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Koba's appearance and his vulgarity in argument always made his sallies unpleasant. His speeches were always devoid of wit and had the character of straightforward exposition. But what was perpetually astonishing was his machinelike memory. When you stared at his poorly developed forehead and small cranium, it seemed like you could puncture it like a cylinder of gas, and all of Marx's
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would hiss out noisily. Marxism was his element; in it he was indomitable. There was no power that c
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― Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
― Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
