Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.