“We, the Great-Russian proletarians, who defend no privileges whatever, do not defend this privilege either. We are fighting on the ground of a definite state; we unite the workers of all nations living in this state; we cannot vouch for any particular path of national development, for we are marching to our class goal along all possible paths.”

— Vladimir Lenin

"Right of Nations to Self-Determination", (1904), The Lenin Anthology
1910s

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