"He had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and leaving it equipped with atomic piles."
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Anti-imperialistsAtheistsGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet premiersPeople from Georgia (country)
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Isaac Deutscher, Ironies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism The book was published in 1966, but the article first appeared in 1953, as an obituary. Similar phrase could be found in the article "Stalin" of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1956), v. 21, p. 303 written by Isaac Deutscher as well. In Russian sources, this quote is commonly misattributed to Winston Churchill.
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