When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.