“You must side with one of the two immensely wealthy and immensely powerful groups of imperialist predators - that is how capitalist reality poses the basic issue of present-day foreign policy.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

1910s, "The Foreign Policy of the Russian Revolution"

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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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