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"We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism ha..." — Sun Yat-sen
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.
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