“To me the war was an abomination, a madness, a crime, and from the first moment onwards–more out of impulse than reflection–I inwardly rejected it and could never reconcile myself with it up to this very moment.”

—  Alexandra Kollontai

About the first World War.
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

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