“They are all blinded and stunned by him,he's a God for them -- greater than a God,because people who believe in God have a concept of good and evil,charity,redemption,compassion but they don't.They have only Stalin. He's their god and their… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“I think a man can either believe in God or not believe, he can get faith and he can lose it but there is only one God for the true believer, and that is the one he carries in his… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“She didn't have the strength to fight hunger and injustice,she didn't know how to fight hunger and injustice,she didn't know how to fight, but… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“And Eisenstein was doing it,too!As a young boy Sasha had seen his Battleship Potemkin in the Khudoshestvennyi Theater on the Arbat Sqaure.The cashiers,ticket-takers,cloak room attendants, all were dressed in sailors' uniforms;it looked just grand,it set the mood.The world had acknowledged BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN as the best film and Eisenstein as the greatest director.Now the 'greatest' was loyally serving the tyrant and… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share
“Throughout history people blamed their sufferings on everyone and anyone except God.You don't criticize God,you thank Him.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“They are all blinded and stunned by him,he's a God for them -- greater than a God,because people who believe in God have a… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“The golden stock of the Russian Revolution.' Where is this golden stock today? These people have come to replace them. From the top to the bottom.They are offering up Russia,they driving people to their deaths.Sasha remembered:Panait Istrati had called those who had opposed and fought against Stalin in the 1920s and who were annihilated by him in the 1930s 'the… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share
“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“There was something religious in grandmother's face, not in any sanctimoniously devout or ecstatic sense,but a look full of religious feeling, serenity and resignation.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the bigger the apartment, the harder it is to find room to put up an extra person for the night.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Friends and acquaintances in this day and age don't write at all, or if they do it's only to let you know they're still… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“There was snow on the veranda, and on his orders the snow had not been removed. If there were no tracks in the snow,… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
