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By 1938, Mussolini could confidently assert that ‘in the face of the total collapse of the system [bequeathed] by Lenin, Stalin has covertly transformed himself into a Fascist.’

— A. James Gregor The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics (1974)

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