It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

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

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

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.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.