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.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.