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✦Historical Figure

ash-heap of history

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A phrase popularized by Leon Trotsky and later famously used by Ronald Reagan in 1982 to describe the inevitable fate of tyrannical regimes and ideologies.

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Appearance

Mentioned once in Three Days Of The Condo.

Three Days Of The Condo

Season 4 · Episode 11 · S04E11

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“Well, I will leave now taking solace in the certain knowledge that in time, you, Ms. Langer, will join all tyrants on the ash-heap of history!”
— Frasier

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