American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.