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    "ocrText": "at the beginning of 1918. In his historic speech of 26 October 1917, which\nexpounded the decree establishing peace, Lenin gave us the inspired definition\nshowing wherein the invincible force of the young proletarian State consists--\nin the consciousness of the people. Lenin showed how our conception of strength\ndiffers in principle from the bourgeois conception of strength.\n\"According to the bourgeois definition, strength means that the masses,\nobedient to the orders of imperialist governments, submit blindly to carnage,\"\nsaid Lenin. The bourgeoisie only acknowledges a state to be strong when it\nis capable, with the entire might of the government apparatus, of driving\nthe masses along a path desired by the bourgeois rulers.\nOur definition of strength is a different one. As we understand it, a\nstate is strong through the consciousness of the masses. It is strong when\nthe masses know everything, are capable of judging everything, and are doing\neverything consciously. The entire history of the Soviet State, created by\nthe genius of Lenin, shows that it is strong through the consciousness of the\nmasses who are defending their Socialist country with the greatest stead-\nfastness.\n\"Now, and as of October 1917, we are defenders; we stand for the defense\nof our country from that day on, because we have shown by deeds our break\nwith imperialism,\" Lenin pointed out.\nThe Civil War foisted on us by the classes crushed by the Revolution,\nlandowners, capitalists and imperialist states who started an armed inter-\nvention against our country, ended with the victory of the Soviet Nation.\nThe plans of the American-Anglo-French and other imperialists, the plans of\nthe Hoovers and Urquharts who dreamed of the division and enslavement of\nRussia, suffered a fiasco.\nThe Soviet people drove out of its territory the foreign invaders who\nhad inflicted hard and unforgettable suffering and enormous material"
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