Nikita Khrushchev, quoted in Edward Crankshaw, Khrushchev: A Career (1966), p. 12.
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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
— Germans
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist." in the context of "Nikita Khrushchev, quoted in Edward Crankshaw, Khrushchev: A Career (1966), p. 12." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Germans
Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
About Germans
Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
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