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There exists a thick layer of people who would freeze to death at the sheer thought of joining the Party. There exists a huge structure of persons who would have been very unhappy and probably even lost in life if they would not have had a chance to enlist themselves in the Party. There are many who feel unhappy in the Party, but they will remain there for, outside its ranks, they would have been even more unhappy, at least for a few initial years. And, of course, there are those Party members whose expulsion from the Party is so amazing an event that one is unable to comprehend it, while on the other hand there is a certain group of people whose ultimate and inevitable expulsion from the Party might well be predicted and foreseen.
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Glazov, Y. (1988). Expulsion from the Party. In: To Be or Not to Be in the Party. Sovietica, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2963-0_6
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