Quotes

The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koyazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us. You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest our hearts, brains, energy, and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.

You've never had to chant: 'Shame on the Israeli aggressors!', you've never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.

We know our time is interesting, but yours is much more so. We are building communism, but you are living in it.

We paid a heavy price of millions of lives for our victory. And today, on 22 June 1969, on the 28th anniversary of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany on our Soviet country, we address you, those who don't know what war is. We urge you to remember and respect the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight for socialism, who died defending the freedom of the motherland and European nations from foreign invaders.

Be not afraid of any man who walks beneath the skies, though you be weak and he be strong - I will equalize.

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Sunrise, sunset,
Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly flow the days,
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as we gaze.