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

[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

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

As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army