In the space of a few days we destroyed one of the oldest, most powerful, barbarous and brutal of monarchies. In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades.
No, because this is a reference to "there are weeks where decades happen"
btw I looked it up a while ago and I don't think he ever actually said it.
This might be the real one
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