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"Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force."
"We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks."
"We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society."
"American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other."
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything."
"Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal."
"There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage."
"We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free."
"As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves."
"Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government."
"Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work."
"Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected."
"[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs."
"For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society."
"There is no nation in the whole world desiring war."
"It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society."
"I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found."
"In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany."
"I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans."