Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.