"'in conditions of fierce class struggle, in a large Party intimately connected to the broad masses, . . . the personal can become the political. . . . When we fight, we do not fight the way liberals do. They are the ones who separate the personal from the political. Among us, it does not work that way: if your politics are lousy, then you are a lousy, good-for-nothing person, and if your politics are wonderful, then you are a wonderful person.'"The "disgraced" Mikhail Pavolovich Tomsky, "in his confession to the Sixteenth Party Congress" of 26 June-13 July 1930, as translated by and quoted in Yuri Slezkine, The house of government: a saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), 304.
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