One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980