We are restoring the Leninist norms of democracy. But Leninist norms are not the same as the bourgeois norms of democracy. You know yourself: when Gorky-affected by traumatic impressions, deprivation, hunger and housing difficulties in the first years after October-abandoned his revolutionary position, Lenin did not hesitate to close down his newspaper Novaia zhizn'. (Vasily Grossman)

We are restoring the Leninist norms of democracy. But Leninist norms are not the same as the bourgeois norms of democracy. You know yourself: when Gorky-affected by traumatic impressions, deprivation, hunger and housing difficulties in the first years after October-abandoned his revolutionary position, Lenin did not hesitate to close down his newspaper Novaia zhizn'.

Vasily Grossman

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