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Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

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The first words of the inhabitats of Partgrad were offensive words.

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None of the Marxist concepts (literally – not a single one!) matches the logical rules of scientific concepts.

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But the [communist] authorities acquire from Marxism a splendid method and abounding phraseology to justify whatever piggery.

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Khrushchev's perestroika ended without any bloodshed. Khrushchev's companions abandoned their leader in time and turned Brezhnevists.

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The Stalin Square and Stalin Prospect were renamed Lenin Square and Lenin Prospect. The statue of Stalin was remade into statue of Lenin.

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The oblast head of Church disproved the claim in a party newspaper. At the same time he condemned the president of the US as a warmonger.

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The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism's attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.

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All in all, Engels talked so much rot of every kind, that now all the world's academies of science should be directed to rectify his mistakes and idiocies.

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When Andropov became First Secretary of Central Committee of CPSU, he ordered the town renamed Partgrad. It's hard to guess, how long will that name endure.

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Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

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They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?

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She is well known as an ardent supporter of whatever the party's main direction is. She used to be a passionate Brezhnevist. Now she is an even more passionate Gorbachevist.

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'More and more centres of population are joining the socialist competition to acquire the name of the place where prince Oleg was stung by a snake and former czarina Maria was strangled.'

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It was prince Igor who decided already many years before Peter the Great to cut an opening to Europe. But as he didn't know where Europe was, he cut it in a wrong direction, namely to Asia.

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On the palace of the Prince, there was a slogan: 'Long live feudalism – the bright future of the whole humanity!' The slogan on the first sanctuary read: 'Forward to the victory of serfdom!'

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