The problem with slavery is not why people are forced to become slaves, but why they allow themselves to be enslaved. p. 67 - Alexander Zinoviev

If there is something that can prevent men from waging the Third World War, it is the fear that the powerful have of finding themselves after the conflict in the situation of madmen parked in their underground bunkers or far away from the ancient centers of culture. We also do not know what the reaction of the surviving population will be towards them. It is likely that she will quickly get rid of them, considering them responsible for the tragedy. (p.169)

One of the reasons for the rather low intellectual level of essays which criticize Soviet society and denounce its scourges is precisely poor ideological education. p. 638

There, as in the Soviet Union, we also don't like hearing the truth. p. 103