“The train of history makes sharp turns and those who are not skilled riders fall off the train.”

— Vladimir Lenin

As quoted in Dorothy Healey, California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1993), p. 81.
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Variant: "When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off." Whittaker Chambers, The Revolt of the Intellectuals, TIME magazine, January 6, 1941.

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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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