The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union…

Leon Trotsky
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture. ✨ Leon Trotsky (1937). The revolution betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it going?, Doubleday, Doran
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