“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”

“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.”

“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”

“We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ”

“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”

“the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain”

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