“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.”

Stalin's article "Our purposes" Pravda #1, (22 January 1912)
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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