Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back