The Associated Press Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Big Three Conference at the Livadia Palace in Yalta on February 12, 1945. The revolution which has been victorious in one country must regard itself not as a self-sufficient entity, but as an aid, a means for hastening the victory of the proletariat in all countries. Good words are a mask for the concealment of bad deeds.
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or iron wood.
The party cannot be neutral toward religion and it does conduct anti-religious propaganda against all and every religious prejudice because it stands for science while religious prejudice runs counter to science, because all religion is something opposed to science. We must draw up wage scales that will take into account the difference between skilled labor and unskilled labor, between heavy work and light work. We cannot tolerate a situation where a rolling-mill hand in a steel mill earns no more than a sweeper. We cannot tolerate a situation where a railway locomotive driver earns only as much as a copy clerk. The Government of the U.S.S.R. considers that, despite the differences in the economic systems and ideologies, the co-existence of these systems and a peaceful settlement of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the United States are not only possible, but also doubtless necessary in the interests of a general peace.