The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants. - Leonid Brezhnev

Today progress is so swift in all fields that the education received by young people is only a foundation that requires the constant acquisition of knowledge.

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA — at a high level and in a rather cynical form — to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.