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Joseph Stalin: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. said in 1923; Boris Bazhanov The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992); see Stoppard
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00010383
Joseph Stalin: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.
said in 1923; Boris Bazhanov The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992); see Stoppard
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