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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Vladimir Lenin

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Vladimir Lenin
Age: 53 †
Born: 1870
Born: April 22
Died: 1924
Died: January 21
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Politician
Revolutionary
Writer
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin
Vladimir Il'ich Ul'yanov
Lenin
V. I. Ul'yanov
V. I. Lenin
Vladimir Ulyanov
Vladimir Ul'yanov
V. I. Ulyanov
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Chess
Recreation

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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
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