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Infallible people do not exist, Lenin used to say. It depends, first, on the kind of error and, second, how long it persisted. And whether there was willingness to pursue the line considered correct. If there was such willingness, certain errors had to be passed over."

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

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