A verdade (comparada com a mentira)

“Here, for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity.” - Paul Robeson, numa das suas visitas à União Soviética.

"I have seen the future and it works." Lincoln Steffens, em 1921 na chegada aos EUA depois de visitar a União Soviética.

Everywhere we saw hopeful and enthusiastic working-class, self-respecting free up to the limits imposed on them by nature and a terrible inheritance from tyranny and incompetence of their former rulers, developing public works, increasing health services, extending education, achieving the economics independence of woman and the security of the child and in spite of many grievous difficulties and mistakes which or social experiments involve a first (and which they have never concealed nor denied) setting an example of industry and conduct which would greatly enrich us if our systems supplied our workers with any incentive to follow it. - George Bernard Shaw em resposta a um jornal inglês, cúmplice da campanha de mentiras contra a URSS em Março de 1933.

"The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection." Mahatma Gandhi referindo-se a Lenine e aos seus ideais.

Il était la plus brillante personne, qui tenait tête à notre cruelle et changeante époque, dans laquelle sa vie s'est passée…Staline a hérité d'une Russie à la charrue, et l'a laissée avec l'arme atomique…L'histoire n'oublie pas de telles personnes. Winston Churchill, em 21 de Dezembro de 1959, no 80º aniversário do nascimento de Estaline.

Aqui fica o link para os artigos de John Dewey acerca das suas Impressões da Rússia Soviética e do mundo revolucionário.