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"As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia."
"World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime."
"It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army."
"We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us."
"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
"The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."
"Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!"
"It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes."
"A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past"
"He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power."
"The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!"
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
"Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar."
"Die, but do not retreat."
"Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world."
"[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth."
"The United States should get rid of its militias."
"You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded."
"Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread."
"Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country."