For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

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

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

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