Vladimir Lenin:

When we are victorious on a world scale, I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of the world's largest cities. This would be the most 'just' and most educational way of utilizing gold for the benefit of these generations which have not forgotten how, for the sake of gold, ten million men were killed and thirty million crippled in the 'great' war of liberation, for the sake of selling the 'right' to gold to the highest bidder, etc.

— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

Context

Speech on the New Economic Policy (NEP)

Date / Period

1921

Source

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm

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