“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
“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… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“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… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“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
