“Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.”

— Joseph Stalin

Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska 1912-1927, [Bolshevik Leadership, Correspondence 1912-1927], p. 90
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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