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

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".