The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration …

Leon Trotsky
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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history. ✨ Leon Trotsky (2017). History of the Russian Revolution, p.596, Penguin UK
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