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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “They often tell things that are true, but all depends upon the way a story is told.”

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They often tell things that are true, but all depends upon the way a story is told.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights that the truthfulness of a story can be distorted by the way it is presented.

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