Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.

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

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.