“Sokolnikov: "Or they would utilise us, if we became simply an appendage of German Fascism, which would utilise us and then throw us away like a dirty rag, we would be condemned, disgraced and proved to be utter nonentities."”

— Grigori Sokolnikov

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Soviet diplomat 1888–1939

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