I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Not all of me shall die.

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?