Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.