Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.