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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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— Leon Trotsky, talking about the national question

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Trotsky, Leon (1930). The History of the Russian Revolution. University of Michigan Press. p. 213.

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Lenin, Vladimir (1914). The Right of Nations to Self-Determination. Resistance Books. p. 254. ISBN 1876646136.