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Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives. ↗

— Barbara Demick

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Communism is like one big phone company. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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I don't really view communism as a bad thing. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

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Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. ↗

— Billy Graham

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When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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