“While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline…. When he is in the minority… he is against it.”

— Anastas Mikoyan

Statement about Grigory Zinoviev, as quoted in "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" (2001) by Michael Kort, p. 172

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Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman 1895–1978

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