Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.

In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.