“Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”

— Garry Kasparov

Foreword, p. XIV https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped/dp/1610396200/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= <br class="br">2010s, Winter is Coming (2015)

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former chess world champion 1963

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“Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”

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