Word: areopagus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin: No, it can't be decided by an individual. . . . From the experience of three revolutions we know that of 100 decisions, not tested and corrected collectively, 90 will be one-sided. ... In this Areopagus* is concentrated the wisdom of our Party. . . . Never, under any conditions, would our workers now endure the rule of one person...
...Areopagus: the hill on which in early Athenian times sat a council with supreme executive and judicial power...