For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in th…

The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a mill…

Throughout history, people have lived in poverty and misery. They have been degraded by hunger and ignorance, they have tormented each other and been driven in…

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.