The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand.… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
