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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Yet I could not say ‘No’: it would have been a lie.

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Yet I could not say ‘No’: it would have been a lie.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin grapples with the moral dilemma of truthfulness in the face of coercion, emphasizing the complexity of honesty.

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