In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.


As quoted in The Cheka : Lenin's Political Police (1981) by George Leggett, p. 54

Leon Trotsky Quotes

In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be...

In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be...

In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be...

In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be...