It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

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.

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

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.