feb 9, 1946 - Stalin's February 9th speech

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http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1947-2/cold-war/cold-war-texts/stalin-election-speech/

"He restated Marx’s condemnation of capitalism for distributing wealth unevenly. He reiterated Lenin’s claim that, as a result, capitalists were likely to go to war with one another. He drew from this the conclusion that peace could come only when communism had triumphed throughout the world. " (Gaddis 2006, p. 94)

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