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Hello, and welcome to Revolutions.

Episode 10.83 terror is necessary.

In the summer of 1918, Communist leaders looked out from the vantage point of the Kremlin,

and saw themselves surrounded by an array of enemies both foreign and domestic.

And because Lenin and his comrades made no distinction between the fortunes of the Communist

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