Author of quotes: Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev. Page 1

The pursuit of pleasure (for pleasure) is a characteristic disease of our time. Manage to resist this epidemic, and you will understand what is the true enjoyment of life - the fact of life. And this requires simplicity, clarity, moderation, mental health, short, simple, but now the most difficult phenomena of life. For the vast majority of our population poor lifestyle and lack of everything what brings fun, this for centuries. We have to think about how to adapt to it than it is to compensate. The only remedy for this, if you exclude the struggle for the good life as the goal of life is to develop the spirit and culture of spiritual communication. It is true that man seeks happiness. There is no happiness without the capacity for self-restraint, without self-control. Happiness there is a fee for self-restraint, is the result of self-control. Limiting and constraining themselves in the normal everyday context of life, you turn your "I" in a section in which you can only experience happiness. Without it possible only a fleeting and momentary illusion of happiness. Satisfaction is the result of victory over circumstances. Happiness is the result of the victory over himself.

I reject the pursuit of material well-being, but I do not insist on waiver. Modern society is in abundance gives rise to temptations. But it simultaneously creates opportunities to settle. It creates the opportunity to have everything without having anything. Better not to have than to lose. Must be able to life to build so that it can be without having. Hence, it is necessary to establish possession than means at the same time the lack of it. It is necessary to establish what can be reduced needs to a minimum and what to develop to the maximum. And with minimal effort and maximum success. Learn to lose. Learn to justify their loss and finding her compensation. Not acquire, without which you can do.

... the problem now is not how to build a Paradise on earth, and how to live in this Paradise.

In the United States Khrushchev with his entourage visited the apartment of the average American. "Here we have a bedroom, explained American - dining room here, living here, there's room, my office, here. But as in the Soviet Union, arranged the apartment, Mr. Khrushchev?" - "Just - said Nikita Khrushchev, we have no partitions".

Khrushchev began to eliminate the "iron curtain". The result of Khrushchev's trip with his liberal mates in the US was the infamous "corn politics" the intention to cause using corn already "the current generation of" Soviet people to complete communism. This ridiculous policy has brought Khrushchev contemptuous nickname "kukuruznik". We then reformulated Lenin's formula: "Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country" in Khrushchev's formula "Communism is Soviet power plus securizate the whole country."

A negative attitude to Stalin is because he has exposed the essence of Marxism-Leninism as an ideology and the real nature of communism. Stalin played its historical role. And now it can dump all those negative phenomena, those which are actually the essence of the inherent attributes of communism. He was made a scapegoat for the sins of history, and for the unforeseen consequences of the reality of communism. The Soviet leadership and his lackeys show their own nature, "exposing" Stalin, not the nature of Stalinism. They came with Stalin's unfair, meanly, craftily, as it corresponds to their own nature. True: a dead lion can even kick ass.

Shortly after the war I heard an anecdote. Molotov told Stalin, that Moscow was a man, very similar to Stalin. Stalin ordered that man shot. Voroshilov said that it would be enough to shave the mustache of Stalin double. "Good idea! exclaimed Stalin. - Shave that mustache bastard. And then shoot!"

The Stalinist era was the great scale of events and activities. Latest measured millions of participants. Join the party - millions. The formation of a layer chiefs - millions. Liquidation of the sole class of the peasantry - millions. The repression of millions. Construction - millions. The elimination of illiteracy - millions. Army - millions. Losing the war - millions. And so in all.

The story needs no justification. She is ignoring all sorts of moralistic evaluation of events and results. And we can only puzzle over how and why it happened.

It turned out that it is much easier to give people a good education and access to the mountain culture than to give them decent housing, clothing, food. Access to education and culture was the most fashionable compensate for domestic squalor.

First thing I did was set the rating of the Stalin era as a criminal. The concept of crime is the concept of legal or moral but not historical and not sociological. It is not applicable to historical periods, to whole societies and peoples. The Stalinist era was terrible. It committed countless crimes. But it is not easy to talk about it in General as an offence. It is also not considered as a criminal society that emerged in this era, no matter how bad it may be.

Drunkenness I thought was morally justified. Moreover, I regarded him as a phenomenon is inevitable in the conditions of Russia, and as a phenomenon of social, not medical. <...> In Russia, alcohol was never a part of normal food, as in many other places on the planet. He was always part of public policy. The main causes of alcoholism has always been poverty and misery of life, and psychological drama generated by the hopelessness of the situation and despair. In the early postwar years, binge drinking has taken such proportions, such as never was in all last history of Russia. Didn't have money for good food and clothes. And drinking enough. It was cheaper. People have experienced untold misery and sorrow. Drunk is for the time forgotten. Life became a little more colorful and fun. Relationships with people have become heartier. The government deliberately maintained drinking as a means to divert people's attention from their plight. Alcoholic drinks were sold everywhere. In the evenings, which are regularly arranged in all institutions and enterprises, certainly worked for buffet.

They say that the historical Salieri was not at all like in the legend. But if this is so, the legend is still closer to the truth. In mozartian time, one realized Mozart was one of Salieri. In our time, at a potential Mozart are thousands of actual Salieri acting even more cowardly and small than the legendary Salieri. Progress!

We need a dream, a hope, a utopia. Utopia is a great discovery. If people do not invent new, at first glance nobody wants utopia, then they will not survive as a people. We need a fairy tale: it's important for people to what they believe fog and what they believe a fairy tale.