When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.