We Are So Attached To The Earth,

It Is In The Nature Of The Human Being To Seek A Justification For His Actions.

The Solemn Pledge To Abstain From Telling The Truth Was Called Socialist Realism.

I Dedicate This To All Those Who Did Not Live To Tell It. And May They Please Forgive Me For Not Having Seen It All Nor Remembered It All, For Not Having Divined All Of It - From The Gulag Archipelago

The Central Government Possesses No Plan Of Finding The Way Out Of This Blind Alley.

If... If... We Didn't Love Freedom Enough. And Even More - We Had No Awareness Of The Real Situation. We Spent Ourselves In One Unrestrained Outburst In 1917, And Then We Hurried To Submit. We Submitted With Pleasure! ........... We Purely And Simply Deserved Everything That Happened Afterward.