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

History punishes those that come late to it.

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.

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

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

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

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.