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Stalinism of the Week

By Anne ApplebaumPosted Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000, at 9:00 PM ET

(With apologies to Jacob Weisberg.)

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."—Joseph Stalin (possibly apocryphal)

[Editor's note: Applebaum's instincts were right. Joe never said it. See this "Explainer" for the full story.]

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Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post and Slate columnist. Her most recent book is Gulag: A History.
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