“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

John Maynard Keynes, paraphrase of Lenin Interview http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/15/fake-quote-files-v-i-lenin-on-inflation-and-taxation/
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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