Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.