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The substance of socialist democracy lies in efficient socialist organisation of all society for the sake of every individual, and in the socialist discipline of every individual for the sake of all society.

— Leonid Brezhnev

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Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976)

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

Selected Speeches and Writings (1980)

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992)

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.

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

Sputnik : Digest (1967)

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