“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.”

— Vyacheslav Molotov

Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4

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Soviet politician and diplomat 1890–1986

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