"When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world."
— Vladimir Lenin

January 1, 1970

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"The Importance of Gold Now and After the Complete Victory of Socialism" (5 November 1921), Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 113.