“Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.”

—  Vladimir Lenin

Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 398–421.
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