We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.