Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

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.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.