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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

— Charles de Gaulle Misattributed

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Reported in the National Review (November 1962) as a misattribution created by extreme rightists. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 33.

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