Das Kapital will read it, and even fewer will understand it". Nonetheless, Marx acknowledged that Russia was the country where "Capital" "was read and valued more than anywhere". The Russian edition was the fastest selling. 3,000 copies were sold in one year while the German edition took five years to sell 1,000, thus the Russian translation sold fifteen times faster than the German original. In the wake of the global economic collapse of 2008–2009, "Das Kapital" was reportedly in high demand in Germany. In 2012, Red Quill Books released "Capital: In Manga!", a comic book version of Volume I which is an
Prague Manifesto Prague Manifesto The Prague Manifesto (in Russian: Пражский Манифест) was a document written by several members of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an anti-communist coalition of former Soviet military and citizens who aimed to overthrow Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and establish a non-communist government in Russia, in alliance with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The manifesto was published on 14 November 1944. The Manifesto opened with a preamble that strongly criticized Stalin for crimes against the people of the USSR, including genocide via repression and engineered famines, and suppression of personal freedoms.