"All these parties-the SR's the Mensheviks, the Anarchists, the Popular Socialists-had for decades only pretended to be revolutionaries; they had worn socialism only as a mask, and for that they went to hard labour, still pretending."
How do they not see that they are simply useful idiots, and will be discarded when the time is right? How can anyone unironically use a hammer and sickle as a symbol of greatness?
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I re-read this and a "Day in the Life" once a year. In my humble opi ion they are the greatest non-fiction stories ever created. Everything he lived through makes no sense at all, and the lost stories of the millions that perished are one of the darkest stains in human history. He trully is one of the most remarkable humans that ever lived.
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currently reading, can barely believe the atrocities on that scale actually happened
Fucking fanboys I swear.