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 40 and as "determining everything." His most significant sentences were the following:

What now is this Communist Party which claims to represent the proletariat by divine right, not only in Russia but throughout the whole world—and by representing the world proletariat, proposes to take possession of the earth and all it contains?

Here are the official Soviet statistics of the Party membership of some 604,000 (we omit a few unimportant figures):