Morning Walk Prabhupada: …they assemble together and people are unhappy. They have renounced democracy, eh? Communist? Atreya Rsi: Well, they have some sort of democracy themselves. Prabhupada: No, they are dictatorship. Actually Stalin’s dictatorship was going on. Atreya Rsi: Yes. It’s all dictatorship. Democracy is also a dictatorship, but by election. They elect a fool, and then he can be…, do whatever he wants. Prabhupada: (chuckles) Yes. Atreya Rsi: He will try to be as powerful as he can. (end)
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by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
March 14, 1975, Iran