The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

--Vladimir Lenin lives on in today's politics

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,

Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,

But where there's so much as a half a conversation

The Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.

-- from "Stalin" 1934 by Osip Mandelstam

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

- C.S.Lewis

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