Word: quinctius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first dictators in history was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. In 458 B.C. he was appointed dictator by the Roman Senate, being called from the plow to save Rome from foreign invasion . . . Having fulfilled the task . . . imposed upon him by the Senate, he returned to his plow ... The first dictator of our times was Lenin. He went to Russia in 1917 [from exile in Switzerland] ... He called to the Russian armies ... to drop their rifles, fraternize with the Germans, and run home "to loot the loot," and then he seized power from the provisional government . . . After that, Lenin concluded peace with Germany...
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