“The wall is rotten. One good shove and it will collapse.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

As quoted by Tariq Ali in The Dilemmas of Lenin, in response to a officer asking "Why are you causing trouble, young man? You're breaking your head against a wall."
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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