“Lenin was a Great Russian peasant et rien de plus, mais r-r-rien de plus. Oh yes, he was a dialectician, the only true one among them. But most of all he was a Russian and that is to be a peasant.”

—  Whittaker Chambers

Source: Notes from the Underground (1997), p. 274

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