John Lennon Quotes

I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Remembers
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Communist idea

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• I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Religion
  • Remembers
  • Nikita Khrushchev