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"Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!"
"Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!"
"Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world."
"American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists."
"We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism."
"Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines."
"It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us."
"Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes."
"[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections."
"So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness"."
"History shows that there are no invincible armies."
"Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?"
"We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery."
"In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty."
"The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead."
"Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes."
"A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities."
"This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system."
"We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests."
"There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army."