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>>Lenin didn't speak English
An interview with Lenin
Thursday December 4, 1919
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After a word of introduction I asked what I should speak, French or
German. He replied that if I did not object he would prefer to speak
English, and that if I'd only speak clearly and slowly he would be
able to follow everything. I agreed, and he was as good as his word,
for only once during the three-quarters of an hour that the meeting
lasted did he stumble at a word, and then only for an instant; he had
seized my meaning almost immediately.
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