The best catch phrases of 6 Soviet figures

October 14, 1964 Leonid Brezhnev was elected to the post of First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In his official speeches, there were many phrases that later became "winged".

(Total 6 photos)

1. Leon Trotsky

"I'm not a Jew, I'm an internationalist"

"Spiritual creativity requires freedom"

“Gnawing on the granite of science with your young teeth!”

"To lead is to foresee"

2. Vladimir Lenin

"The book is a great power"

"Less is better"

"We rob the loot"

"Study, study and study"

"Art belongs to the people"

"Broken armies learn well"

"Religion is a kind of spiritual fuselage"

3. Nadezhda Krupskaya

“If Lenin were alive, Stalin would have imprisoned him too”

"Children are our future!"

“Science is a huge treasure trove of knowledge accumulated by mankind”

4. Joseph Stalin

“We need to work, not protest”

“We Bolsheviks do not believe in miracles”

“Chatterboxes have no place in operational work”

"What our enemies like is bad for us"

"If the theater begins with a hanger, then for such plays you need to hang"

“Fear alone cannot hold power. The lie was no less necessary."

5. Nikita Khrushchev

"We'll show you Kuz'kin's mother"

"Revolutions are not made for export"

"From saxophone to knife - only one step"

"When a person eats, he becomes kinder"

“What is this disgrace, what freaks? Where is the author?

"Whoever hits us on the cheek, we will tear off his head"

“We have one controversial issue - land: who will bury whom”

“Our goals are clear, the tasks are defined! Get to work, comrades!

6. Leonid Brezhnev

"The economy must be economical"

“Don’t write in my report a lot of quotations from the classics! Who would believe that Lenya Brezhnev read Marx?

"Thank you, party, for this"

“Politicians are shit. But how to kiss

"Margaret Thatcher tries to wear Winston Churchill trousers"

“We couldn’t do it right. Here, damn it, stuck in history "