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In capitalist countries the bourgeoisie leads. So long as imperialism and socialism are locked in struggle with each other, it's either a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or a dictatorship of the working class.

— Vyacheslav Molotov Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993)

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