But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.