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Feb 2024
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Just Another Kautsky Fan

Cosmonaut Magazine
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Interpreting Stalin's fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and Lenin. By Lawrence Parker.
Read By Luke Pickrell
Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix
Outro Music: We are Friends Forever performed by Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment.

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