During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.