The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
Leon TrotskyThat the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
Leon TrotskyโThe party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
Leon Trotsky