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You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
Anarchist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
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Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
P. Kropotkin
P. A. Kropotkin
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