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Lenin, whom the Congress has not yet seen, is given the floor for a report on peace. His appearance in the tribune evokes a tumultuous greeting. The trench delegates gaze with all their eyes at this mysterious being whom they had been taught to hate and whom they have learned without seeing him to love.

Now Lenin, gripping the edges of the reading-stand, let little winking eyes travel over the crowd as he stood there waiting, apparently oblivious to the long-rolling ovation, which lasted several minutes. When it finished, he said simply, ‘We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.’

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- Leon Trotsky, “The Congress of the Soviet Dictatorship,” in The History of the Russian Revolution
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  6. puertoricanmaoist said: Trotsky was literally against Leninism. Counterevolutionaries