World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

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

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

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

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.