Will Rogers Quotes
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Rogers, Will. Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams. Edited by James M. Smallwood, vol. 3, Oklahoma State University Press, 1979.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
Vladimir Lenin. Although Plekhanov was the intellectual giant of Russian communism, he died only two years into the revolution. He was never happy with some of the pragmatic compromises the younger firebrand communist leaders were making from their ideals. By the time he passed away, most, especially the younger, communist leaders like Stalin saw him as an old obstructionist and he was never celebrated as a hero by the communists. It was Lenin and older leaders like Trotsky who appreciated him. See {590462}.
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Vladimir Lenin. While Lenin was of this view, Stalin and other hard liners disagreed. They not only imposed their brand of communism on their own people via force with terrible consequences for any dissidents, but the Soviet Army imposed Communism on most of the states of Eastern Europe, and those states in turn used their Armies and secret police to impose it on their own citizens.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
