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Quotes from The Cheka : Lenin's Political Police — Leon Trotsky

1879–1940 Russia

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In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.

The Cheka : Lenin's Political Police (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leon Trotsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.