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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

Vladimir Lenin
War, Communication, People
"Lessons of the Moscow Uprising". Proletary, No. 2, August 29, 1906. Collected Works, Volume 11, pp. 174, www.marxists.org.
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.