My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

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.