“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods.”

— Joseph Stalin

On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/11/25.htm, 25 November 1936.
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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