UN General Assembly
1953

30. There are internal stresses and strains in every country — democratic and communist — by reason largely of the unfulfilled ambitions of the human beings who make up all our populations. In the democracies these stresses and strains can be resolved — or at any rate eased — through the operation of the well-known machinery of democracy. In the communist countries no such safety-valve exists. The condition of the people — of the ordinary common people — in a dictatorship can be altered for the better only by changes in high- level policy dictated by the person or the group in undisputed political control.