“Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.”

— Nicolae Ceaușescu

Source: Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, p. 25

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General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party 1918–1989

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