Russian Government

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“From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... “a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.””
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)